Erik Brynjolfsson runs Stanford's Digital Economy Lab. He's also the guy whose own graduating class asked him, point-blank, if their generation was doomed. He didn't talk her out of the question. He answered it with data. There's a specific relief that shows up whenever someone with real research behind them stops soft-pedaling a fear like this — not because the answer is comforting, but because being taken seriously is its own kind of comfort. 🎓 Here's the mechanism, stripped of the hedgi...