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To: BubbaFred who wrote (39928)	10/21/2003 6:39:20 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

in some fields such as bio-tech, chemistry, mathematics, and physics, China already has plenty of high-level researchers. And in computer science and engineering, China has just start catching up. Give it 20 some years, China will be there. Just look around here in the US, in the high-tech industry, Chinese faces are pretty familiar

To: BubbaFred who wrote (39928)	10/21/2003 6:51:11 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

What if we have more science that we need? Yes, many will be thinking in drawing the gun to shoot the messenger. But hang on there. What is the shelf life of a product today. Think! Look to how much cutting edge technology is coming to the market but not being implemented because our super-structure (institutions, management, business models, accounting methods, regulatory and legal framework, manpower- can't cope with the pace.

To: BubbaFred who wrote (39928)	10/21/2003 7:09:52 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

>>One aspect of the society is the too much respect for the elders and the young scientists would be afraid (or refrain) from bringing out ideas different than their superiors or professors or bosses. That type of character is good for social order, but detrimental to progress particularly in scientific and engineering fields where new discoveries are made by going different paths and ideas. << This type of character is a myth. I will give you one example - Qian XueSen. In front of his teachers, he is very polite, but for a lot of his students and even some of his co-workers, he is very arrogant. And this type of character is very typical among Chinese intellectuals. They may not say it in front of their superiors, but that does not mean they do not think.