| | | USA fading. Like the great and glorious British Empire which brought civilisation and VVV to a benighted world including your illustrious ancestors such as the venerable and globe trotting anglophone Eugene Chen. The UK gave up on VVV and went red socialist with full British Disease. And now Boris wanting to start a war with Vladimir. Boris?! Isn't that a Russian name?
The USA was loaded to the gunwales with VVV and reaped the glory. But in recent decades has faded badly. Nigga Rap is popular, more so than VVV. BLM = burn, loot, murder. So are many drugs. Free stuff reigns.
Now it's not clear that Made in China values aren't more VVV style than those demonstrated in USA. Another 10 years should clear the air and we'll see better which is better.
Russia has been forced [by Eurostan/USA] to deal with China. Israel finds better deals in China. Iraq might find a better customer, Aotearoa-Zimbabwe is heavily Made in China.
I do prefer the maximum degrees of freedom of individual liberty rather than the Made in China mechanism of humans as mere nodes in the Emperor's glory. Jesus and peer to peer ethical free will and freedom of association rather than the Roman Empire style of crucifixion and feeding malcontents to the lions.
It might yet be that USA can yet again maintain superiority just as when Japan reached maximum glory in 1989. Apple, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Oracle, Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet, and swarms of others creating mobile Cyberspace are of vast value and creating a stupendously huge consumer surplus and AI has not got going, nor quantum computing, nor real money [I'm still working on that one]. China is bungling around with AI, quantum physics, nuclear reactors and whatnot, but USA could succeed in that competition too.
Just a few decades ago, Big Oil, General Motors, Boeing and the oily industrial world were 90% of economic activity. Now they are a faded relic bordering on irrelevant. 20 years ago I considered that likely and 35 years ago I was pushing for it. Now it's dawning and actual reality. Have a look at what umpty million 15 year old boys are doing most of the time. It's not fixing carbuetors or learning how to weld. They are yearning for high resolution low latency 3D retina scans for virtual reality = reality from anywhere to anywhere, indistinguishable from the real thing, at low cost with low latency, and stereophonic sound.
We are actually just blobs of neurons in lipids. There's no reason those blobs need to be any particular place. Stuck in a bony skull is not a very safe place for them, with tenous oxygen and nutrient supplies and fragile links via nerves to eyes, ears [see Haim's failing hearing nerve], skin, smell and output via fingertips.
25 years ago I thought sensors like ECG nerve monitors on neck or face, just under the skin, would be a better output method than typing on a keyboard = just mouth words for output detection via nerves. Now Elon is going upstream and trying to get the output direct from the brain rather than my method.
A big paradigm shift is coming. Major paradigm shift.
I think Elon is barking up the wrong tree sending rockets to Mars. We're already where we need to be. What lifts off from Earth will be quantum physics, AI [aka It], photovoltaics, nuclear reactors, not human blobs of bucket chemistry.
Shift happens,
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