thus the future lies in workers creating economic value with machines rather than against them expert opinbn is divided between those who see a secular decline in productivity and those who see a divergence between frontier firms fhat adopt new technologies and reach historically high productivity and other firms that lag behind however the interpretatbn of current trends is complicated by issues pertaining to the appropriateness of existing indicators to measure productivity in the new technological era similar considerations apply to concerns about technological convergence driving simultaneous convergence in platforms commercial interest and investments that can result in concentration of market power