Our briefing and leader on the idea that innovation and new technologies have stopped driving growth drew a big response from readers. Here is a small selection of their letters; more will appear in this week's print edition.
SIR – In 1970, the primary school I attended merged with one from a neighbouring village where all the children aged between five and 11 had been taught by one teacher in a single classroom. It may sound like “Little House on the Prairie”, but this was just a mile or two from the municipal boundary with Cardiff. Until the 1960s it had not been possible to close the school as it was not safe to assume that families in rural Wales would have a car. This was just one of the social changes still unrolling a century or so after the car’s invention.
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