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Can automation close the productivity gap?
Jul 31, 2026SOURCE: cambridge.org
SO WHAT
The window is narrowing: productivity gains will likely accrue to those who control the new stack, unless access broadens quickly.
Cambridge asks whether the current industrial wave can lift productivity. The question is whether the old system can absorb the phase transition without breaking first.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.