Thus, a natural question to ask is whether other complementary factors - including aspects of the labor market, of the business environment, or of government policies - combine to render technological change especially potent or help to foster the transmission of technological change into real gains in the efficiency of the production process.
Similarly, examining the historical record may shed light on the sustainability of the current boom. Do productivity booms simply run out of steam and die natural deaths? Or are they cut short by economic imbalances, exogenous shocks, or detrimental government policies? And, if the latter, are these cessations inevitable?