Traditional economic models are ill-equipped to forecast long-term demand for rare earth materials, precisely because of their fundamental role in technology production. Technological progress is itself unpredictable, and demand for its constituent parts inherits that unpredictability.
What can be said is that demand will likely outpace most forecasts. Technological improvement compounds exponentially.
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