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In the United States, as in the rest of the developed world, the twin-headed international monster of simultaneous inflation and recession has, by threatening an era of no growth, loosened the financial adhesive that has until now made technology and progress virtually synonymous. It may be time for innovation itself to take a new form. Wil Lepkowski reports.
