b'daily trading volume of 1 million shares; in 1986, it passed 100 million shares; the 9 billion share mark was passed in 2008. Sophisticated financial products have proliferated. The financial sectors share of total corporate profits has risen from 10% in 1950 to 30% today, via a peak of 40% in 2008. Along the way, the indigenous, the heirloom, the traditional, the artisan, the agrarian, the local, the regional, often even the familial and the personal, and along with them whole swaths of social fabric and vital elements of culture, have been sacrificed in the name of economic growth, in the name of Its the economy, stupid.Otherwise known as the stupid economy.Bringing us everything from artificial ingredients and artificial intelli-gence to driverless cars and farmerless farms.Can we outrun Great Acceleration? Weve got to try and try again. Put the pedal to the metal for technological innovation. Build machines that take CO 2out of the atmosphere. Sift plastic trash out of the ocean. Extract lithium from brine. Develop aviation biofuels. Say good-bye to the internal combustion engine. Chase the next pharma-ceutical defense against the next superbug. We also have to try to address the problems of speed and economic growth, at their roots. Which means addressing the whole question of money. Which means accounting much more proactively and creatively for the future consequences of todays consumption and wealth creation. Which means deconstructing fiduciary biases 19'