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Equation 18 · Part 1 · Who Builds 2100? The Demographic Engine of Technological Evolution

Symbol g_C

gCg_C
gCg_C

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…researcher count even as per-researcher productivity collapsed [ 3 ] . Assumptions: the UN’s medium-fertility scenario materializes; no AI-driven automation of research tasks reaches the scale Aghion, Jones, and Jones’s gCg_C term describes. Indicator: aggregate research-effort growth (R&D spending deflated by researcher wages, or head-count of researchers in national science statistics) continuing to rise in step with population, without an accompanying discontinuity in AI-attributed discovery counts. Horizon:…

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