In what ways did new technologies change the us economy?

answer:

explanation:

such adjustments aren't new. every five years, the federal government's economic number crunchers announce that they were a little bit off, because of changes in business practices that they couldn't track in real time.

accelerating inflation in the 1960s prompted better measurement of price changes, for example. in the 1980s, ibm the agency understand how computers were getting cheaper and better at the same time.

"when bea does one of these benchmarks, they try to target one of these areas where they know there's been a lot of technological advance that hasn't been captured in the numbers," says brent moulton, who recently retired after a 30-year career split between bea and the bureau of labor statistics. "when the decision was made that software really should be counted as part of investment along with hardware, that led to a large increase in growth rates over the 1980s and '90s."

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