It is simply too late to try to suppress China. The United States must either spend seriously on research and development, along with industrial policy, or it will lose the race for twenty-first-century technological supremacy.
Seeing china construct the first automated port in tianjin really surprised me as a westerner, you’ll and I’ll never see these type of innovation in the west. AI’s and robots will be used for some cool and ‘narly’ way instead of actually being useful. And thing is that I’m glad this is the case, as capitalist countries would put that type of innovation as union-busting or maybe even re-vitalising industry, yet the sheer corruption and incompetence of these CEOs and industry gurus make it so even the most recent ‘innovation’ breakthroughs are either ‘meh’ or some broken down, watered product that’ll never be useful.
Seeing china construct the first automated port in tianjin really surprised me as a westerner, you’ll and I’ll never see these type of innovation in the west. AI’s and robots will be used for some cool and ‘narly’ way instead of actually being useful. And thing is that I’m glad this is the case, as capitalist countries would put that type of innovation as union-busting or maybe even re-vitalising industry, yet the sheer corruption and incompetence of these CEOs and industry gurus make it so even the most recent ‘innovation’ breakthroughs are either ‘meh’ or some broken down, watered product that’ll never be useful.