Publications: Ian Clay

Economists from Telecom Advisory Services estimate that greater broadband adoption and faster speeds contributed $1.3 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product between 2010 and 2020

20.4 percent of China’s population aged 16 to 24 years old (not including full-time students) were unemployed in April.

Access to an AI-based conversational assistant increased customer service productivity by an average 13.8 percent at Fortune 500 companies.

In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center last month, 66 percent of respondents said they believe the U.S. government should encourage wind and solar power production.

The United Nations estimates that India’s population will reach 1.429 billion at the end of 2023, compared to China’s estimated population of 1.426 billion.

In 2019, the AI workforce made up 0.37 percent of the total workforce in the United States, which ranked 10th out of 24 OECD nations and was only slightly higher than the OECD average of 0.34 percent.

The Federal Communications Commission auctioned off 270 MHz of mid-band radio spectrum to exclusive licensed use, and the United States now ranks 12th out of the 15 benchmark countries.

The struggle to understand data leads to bad analogies—that it is the new oil, the new bacon, or the new gold—and to bad government policies, as policymakers can’t make an informed cost-benefit analysis of digital policies, such as privacy, cybersecurity, digital trade, or innovation.

Between 2011 and 2021, the number of active apprenticeships in the United States increased from 357,692 to 593,690, a 66 percent increase.

From 2005 to 2016, economists Jon Chung and Yong Suk Lee found that, while robots initially led to lower employment and wages for affected workers, that trend reversed as firms and workers adjusted to the broader adoption of robots in production.