This does sound pretty good. The most important factor in what this does is it frees up usable land for other things. The land used by solar panels and factories to make them as well.
There are problems with this idea (and other space-based systems that transmit collected energy back down to the Earth's surface).
The atmosphere diffuses all energy going through it, no matter how attenuated the energy is. The energy being transmitted from these satellites will have the same percentage of that energy diffused as the energy coming from the sun.
Why is this a problem? Solar power systems doing the transmission convert infrared and visible light energy to microwave energy. The former part of the spectrum doesn't heat things up much. How much more microwave energy heats water up is well-known. That's a very significant consideration since over 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by water as well as some of it being suspended in the air.
Solar power is better than other sources of energy by the lack of environmental impact that it causes. Transmitting that energy down from space via microwaves destroys that usefulness. Massive utilization of such a system will negate any benefit the system provides.
Remember that usable land that would be freed up by moving the solar panels off the surface. You'll lose that and more from the rising sea level that this form of energy transmission would easily exacerbate.
Bad connection, eh? Sounds like IRL half-drunk (or fully-drunk) surgeons, which is hardly new. Just a new flavor for problems that way.
As to power failure, those also happen without robotic surrogates. When it happens during a surgical procedure, it's almost always deadly. Which is one reason why hospitals have backup generators. The remote site will have backup generators as well. Maybe not because the people doing it think of it at first, but regulations will require it eventually.
And as always, if it's mission critical, have a backup. Aside from generators, that means medical personnel with at least basic training where the patient is located. Backup personnel for surgery is already SOP in good hospitals.
If you RTFA, you'll note that no one actually says this is happening yet.
This is about a complaint filed with the FCC to prevent the use of this technology. One company, SilverPush, is cited as having developed the technology and details about it are in the public view, but that's the only case where there's even anything to cite about this form of intrusive technology.
You can let your hackles go back to their normal position now.
The button to Submit a story is right in front of your nose a the top of the page.
Unless you're implying the editurs are idiots and ignore perfectly nerdulent story suggestions.
You are correct, sir, in that I have not done my part in keeping/. as it was, can, and should be. I implied nothing about the current editorial staff, nor did I wish to do so, regardless of my views on such matters in private. I would like to live up to my own perceived responsibilities as a member of the/. community. Based on my past history, however, that is unlikely to happen. I will, however, keep the thought of making such contributions closer to the fore, thanks to your comment. I can only hope that others take similar encouragement.
TFA discusses this, and they are working on cadmium-free dots, but they are harder to produce. They use indium and phosphorus for those.
Yes. The article also continues to further explain that the cadmium-free dots are less efficient, which makes them less-desirable to the display manufacturers.
Also, to GP, the CEO of the profiled company notes in the article that they do not release any Cadmium in the production of the quantum dots, but they have no control over how the displays are disposed of when they are no longer wanted. Considering the environmental consciousness that they are stated to show, I'm sure the company would love to get those dumped displays and get that Cadmium back, rather than letting it being lost in the environment.
I have been reading/. for far longer than my ID # indicates. IIRC, it was 1999 when I happened upon the site, I just didn't bother to join, because I never had anything useful to say. Back then it was "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." Unfortunately, that guiding mantra no longer adorns the/. bannerhead and we are poorer for it.
This submission is a perfect example of "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." The summary doesn't tell you everything, you have to click through and read the article to get the true value of it. I read the article and it was very informative. I learned interesting information from it. It wasn't just interesting, I might actually use that information in the future.
Thank you for perking up my day with interesting information and giving me hope that/. will continue to be a site to return to for quality information and news.
that's one thing i'll never understand about those crazy europeans - high value coins. i mean, they have 10 euro coins! that's like 15 dollars!!! and these are in high use. in US the most valuable coin in mainstream use is a quarter. isnt that weird???
Yeah, that's weird.
They should do things like we do here in the US. Our high-value currency is imprinted on paper, making it easy to carry around large amounts of it so it's convenient to spend more.
Actually, Oxytocin is destroyed in the gastrointestinal tract in humans. It's normally administered via intravenous injection or nasal spray. So, body spray could actually be useful for getting it to work on people.
However, it doesn't have the same effect in humans as it apparently does in mice.
In humans, Oxytocin creates and/or promotes social bonding. It does not create a sexual response in humans, but levels of it become heightened during and after sexual activities.
So, people can drop the immature sex jokes (or waste their time and keep posting them) as using it on the opposite gender won't automatically cause them to want to have sex.
OTOH, it could be used to make people like each other. World Peace drug, anyone?
The scientists in this article are classifying the characteristics of a new heterogeneous material, which is a necessity as the time for breakdown of this material may make it a significant part of the fossil record.
The scientists are not saying it is a new form of rock. Only possibly the submitter or samzenpus are (mistakenly) saying this.
Sadly, considering where that originates from, it's true.
Channeling a magnetic field through a ferromagnetic metallic "skin" (hull plating) will deflect or scatter charged particle weapons or hazards.
Similarly, one could "paint" one of the various forms of materials whose optical properties can be altered by passing electrical current through it. It could be made to be 100% optically absorbent (the same as using two polarized optical filters set at a 90 degree rotation with respect to each other) in order to prevent you being spotted when you're in space. If someone sees you (since you just passed in-between a light source and them), and they shoot lasers at you, you change the polarization to make the material 100% optically reflective, thereby bouncing the laser off your ship.
Any laser much higher or lower in frequency than the visible spectrum (as in beyond IR and UV, which could also be affected by a very small subset of the materials which handles the visible light frequencies) is fairly difficult and inefficient to produce, therefore making it extraordinarily unlikely to be used as a weapon.
One scary a$$ line, indicates a 100% success rate.
You should re-read the abstract to see what it is really saying.
The end result is that they were able to get normal-looking offspring from all four strains tested. However, there was an excessive number of failures in the process in order to get that process. The important line over-looked indicating what it took to get those end results: "cloned offspring were born at a 2.8% birth rate". If you check table 1 of the full article it shows there were a total of 651 embryos cultured in order to get their end results.
This is very far from a 100% success rate.
The aim of the experiment was to see if a clone could be produced from more commonly available cell types. This was a desirable aim due to the fact that it would be less harmful (and/or painful) to the donor than other methods of harvesting material for cloning (which may result in permanent damage or death to the donor).
The viability rate for this method of cloning is still no greater than any other method of cloning in use. It's simply a more humane/ethical method of cloning, nothing greater.
When you read the article, this isn't actually too controversial. All that's being done is changing the timing of of when the measurements are taken and when the intermediate photons become entangled. It's really just using the entanglement process to spread out the time over which the quantum state data is transmitted. You basically have a quantum data historical record.
I can certainly see this opening up useful new capabilities in quantum computing and measurement of quantum phenomena, but it doesn't change our understanding of quantum events and how they interact with our "everyday notions of space and time.".
I remember skipping as a kid. I did it in the local mall when my family did our weekly Friday meal/shopping. I did it when I got to our meeting place while waiting for everyone else. I would skip off looking for them instead of just waiting around.
The thing is, after a month of doing this, I wasn't just skipping, I was leaping. It would be a couple of skips to build up enough rebound and then I was leaping. I was able to cover ground much faster than I would normally running in-and-out of the crowd because I could leap over shorter people (I could jump over my own height, easily bounding onto the concrete planters whose edge-tops were above my height) and keep skipping along at that pace with the rebound energy without tiring anywhere near as fast as running. I would guess looking back at it now that I only used about as much energy as jogging, but got better distance/speed.
I eventually stopped doing it because my older brother kept telling me to stop doing it because it was too embarrassing. I grudgingly complied.
Now that someone else brings it up (I was also naturally very good at broken-field running), I wonder at what the result would have been had I not listened to my brother. Could I have continued on with my skipping/leaping to the point that I built up my muscles and technique to keep up a proportionate increase in my leaping ability and set myself up with a better way to travel through crowds or would I have (much more likely) ended up blowing out my knees and/or ankles since human physiology normally doesn't seem to allow for such feats (as the biochemical reactions that allow great leaping abilities in insects reach a point of diminishing returns as you attempt to scale them up)? Perhaps I'm missing something in my evaluations that people have seen in their research in things such as the materials and techniques used in robotic exoskeletons?
California obviously would be the best for inclement weather., but has an extremely expensive costs for land, rent, and labor with high taxes and earthquakes.
It's not just earthquakes. Taking the state as a whole, California is subject to every natural disaster known to man save for volcanic eruptions. Anybody moving facilities there, when the intent is as close to 100% up-time as possible, is bloody freaking nuts.
The art is better quality than most web comics (or newspaper/dead tree comics), even if the style isn't going for as-real-as-possible. No storyline is ever dropped in the middle (there are cutaways to things happening on the other side of the galaxy, but these are things happening at the same time and the series will then jump right back to the main action).
Not every day has a LOL moment at the end (or during the strip), but that's because something's happening in the strip which is a very much OMG sort-of thing.
And, oh yeah, something else the parent post mentions which I've never seen any other web comic manage: a new comic every single day of the year (and it's never some kind of filler), and has done this since the comic started (which means a huge reading archive). Which means not a single day need go by without the reader getting some form of entertainment on that day.
Another article about this milestone covered #1 & #3 of what you listed.
The self-driving cars have been deliberately kept out of those situations as they are more difficult to handle, but it was noted that they would be using the compiled data to adjust the programming and have those among the tested conditions in the next phase.
As to #2, I haven't read about it being specifically tested, but the programming for such a situation is already in the self-driving cars. They stop to avoid collisions with any object, and slow down (as part of the collision avoidance programming) if an object crosses its intended path in anticipation of another object performing a similar action (like people jaywalking in a major metropolitan area).
With regards to #4, I haven't read anything anywhere that gives a definite answer about how the self-driving cars would (or may have already) handle(d) that situation.
I believe you're over-thinking the one-dimensional attribute. It simply means they're using a straight-line chain of the molecules in question. There are no molecules in the construct branching off at any other angle, that's all.
No more weak signals because something is blocking line of transmission to the nearest tower.
All I have to do to send the message from my handset is be walking around with an unlicensed particle accelerator strapped to my back. The receiver component, OTOH will need to be carried by my personal valet, The Incredible Hulk.
I wish that it was possible to mod something up further than 5 in special cases, because the post from hellkyng really is giving the best advice for what you want to do, namely making sure that the people whose data is being stored insecurely becomes stored securely. None of the other 5's in the comments are doing that, they're just "Cover your ass" advice.
Now I'm going to mod up the other post that I've seen which gives advice in line with your goals - contact some famous security professionals and see what they have to say.
This kind of experimentation provides research to something relevant to all of us, namely the Sun. It's something that very few people put any intense thought into, but is very important to us. There's also quite a bit about it that is not understood and every little bit helps, due to our dependence on its existence and how various unusual and not-well-understood (or not understood at all) phenomena can affect us.
Two quotes from the article stand out to me:
First:
"In space, molecular diffusion draws oxygen to the flame and combustion products away from the flame at a rate 100 times slower than the buoyant flow on Earth"
Talk about a slow burn...
When one considers that less than 2% of the Sun is something other than Hydrogen and Helium, and Oxygen being only another chunk of that 2% with other elements having their chunks of that respective small percentage, that quote gives us considerable insight into why the Sun and other stars burn for as long as we believe they do.
Second:
"Thus far, the most surprising thing we've observed is continued apparent burning of heptane droplets after flame extinction under certain conditions. Currently, this is entirely unexplained"
With that perspective, I wonder what unusual phenomena we might now observe (or have been observing) with the idea that there is likely burning ejecta from the sun that we might not ordinarily detect as they are much less visible without any flames.
Of course, the second quote does bring up questions about what strange phenomena might be happening terrestrially or already observed unusual terrestrial phenomena may be closer to being explained with that observation.
This second quote from the article definitely merits more research.
Looking at this quote in the article: "an overflow of workers whose skillsets don’t match with the needs of the export-led, manufacturing-based economy", it really doesn't look like China is thinking long-term.
With how quickly more human-like robotics is coming along in recent years, it looks more and more like over half of those "manufacturing-based economy" jobs could be replaced by a robot that works better for those roles for less money than a human could.
So, what does China do when all of those people are now without jobs. The same problem could be said to apply to all countries around the world as technology moves forward, but China is the one that is currently looking to concentrate people into this area that has has 'long-term obsolescence' stamped all over it. What do they do with all the people that they've trained to be unemployable, then? Soylent Green?
Slashdot Mirror
This does sound pretty good. The most important factor in what this does is it frees up usable land for other things. The land used by solar panels and factories to make them as well.
There are problems with this idea (and other space-based systems that transmit collected energy back down to the Earth's surface).
The atmosphere diffuses all energy going through it, no matter how attenuated the energy is. The energy being transmitted from these satellites will have the same percentage of that energy diffused as the energy coming from the sun.
Why is this a problem? Solar power systems doing the transmission convert infrared and visible light energy to microwave energy. The former part of the spectrum doesn't heat things up much. How much more microwave energy heats water up is well-known. That's a very significant consideration since over 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by water as well as some of it being suspended in the air.
Solar power is better than other sources of energy by the lack of environmental impact that it causes. Transmitting that energy down from space via microwaves destroys that usefulness. Massive utilization of such a system will negate any benefit the system provides.
Remember that usable land that would be freed up by moving the solar panels off the surface. You'll lose that and more from the rising sea level that this form of energy transmission would easily exacerbate.
Bad connection, eh? Sounds like IRL half-drunk (or fully-drunk) surgeons, which is hardly new. Just a new flavor for problems that way.
As to power failure, those also happen without robotic surrogates. When it happens during a surgical procedure, it's almost always deadly. Which is one reason why hospitals have backup generators. The remote site will have backup generators as well. Maybe not because the people doing it think of it at first, but regulations will require it eventually.
And as always, if it's mission critical, have a backup. Aside from generators, that means medical personnel with at least basic training where the patient is located. Backup personnel for surgery is already SOP in good hospitals.
It's been discovered that Graphene can be used as an optical capacitor.
Add in the rest about chips patterned after the brain but otherwise have no other connection to it.
If you RTFA, you'll note that no one actually says this is happening yet.
This is about a complaint filed with the FCC to prevent the use of this technology. One company, SilverPush, is cited as having developed the technology and details about it are in the public view, but that's the only case where there's even anything to cite about this form of intrusive technology.
You can let your hackles go back to their normal position now.
And you, sir, need to get a /. account, so your useful comment won't be rated so low, when it should be higher.
It is indeed as you say, and properly quote for context.
The button to Submit a story is right in front of your nose a the top of the page.
Unless you're implying the editurs are idiots and ignore perfectly nerdulent story suggestions.
You are correct, sir, in that I have not done my part in keeping /. as it was, can, and should be. I implied nothing about the current editorial staff, nor did I wish to do so, regardless of my views on such matters in private. I would like to live up to my own perceived responsibilities as a member of the /. community. Based on my past history, however, that is unlikely to happen. I will, however, keep the thought of making such contributions closer to the fore, thanks to your comment. I can only hope that others take similar encouragement.
TFA discusses this, and they are working on cadmium-free dots, but they are harder to produce. They use indium and phosphorus for those.
Yes. The article also continues to further explain that the cadmium-free dots are less efficient, which makes them less-desirable to the display manufacturers.
Also, to GP, the CEO of the profiled company notes in the article that they do not release any Cadmium in the production of the quantum dots, but they have no control over how the displays are disposed of when they are no longer wanted. Considering the environmental consciousness that they are stated to show, I'm sure the company would love to get those dumped displays and get that Cadmium back, rather than letting it being lost in the environment.
I have been reading /. for far longer than my ID # indicates. IIRC, it was 1999 when I happened upon the site, I just didn't bother to join, because I never had anything useful to say. Back then it was "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." Unfortunately, that guiding mantra no longer adorns the /. bannerhead and we are poorer for it.
This submission is a perfect example of "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." The summary doesn't tell you everything, you have to click through and read the article to get the true value of it. I read the article and it was very informative. I learned interesting information from it. It wasn't just interesting, I might actually use that information in the future.
Thank you for perking up my day with interesting information and giving me hope that /. will continue to be a site to return to for quality information and news.
that's one thing i'll never understand about those crazy europeans - high value coins. i mean, they have 10 euro coins! that's like 15 dollars!!! and these are in high use. in US the most valuable coin in mainstream use is a quarter. isnt that weird???
Yeah, that's weird.
They should do things like we do here in the US. Our high-value currency is imprinted on paper, making it easy to carry around large amounts of it so it's convenient to spend more.
Actually, Oxytocin is destroyed in the gastrointestinal tract in humans. It's normally administered via intravenous injection or nasal spray. So, body spray could actually be useful for getting it to work on people.
However, it doesn't have the same effect in humans as it apparently does in mice.
In humans, Oxytocin creates and/or promotes social bonding. It does not create a sexual response in humans, but levels of it become heightened during and after sexual activities.
So, people can drop the immature sex jokes (or waste their time and keep posting them) as using it on the opposite gender won't automatically cause them to want to have sex.
OTOH, it could be used to make people like each other. World Peace drug, anyone?
Cybertron
Please, RTFA!
The scientists in this article are classifying the characteristics of a new heterogeneous material, which is a necessity as the time for breakdown of this material may make it a significant part of the fossil record.
The scientists are not saying it is a new form of rock. Only possibly the submitter or samzenpus are (mistakenly) saying this.
To repeat: RTFA, no new rocks here!
Sadly, considering where that originates from, it's true.
Channeling a magnetic field through a ferromagnetic metallic "skin" (hull plating) will deflect or scatter charged particle weapons or hazards.
Similarly, one could "paint" one of the various forms of materials whose optical properties can be altered by passing electrical current through it. It could be made to be 100% optically absorbent (the same as using two polarized optical filters set at a 90 degree rotation with respect to each other) in order to prevent you being spotted when you're in space. If someone sees you (since you just passed in-between a light source and them), and they shoot lasers at you, you change the polarization to make the material 100% optically reflective, thereby bouncing the laser off your ship.
Any laser much higher or lower in frequency than the visible spectrum (as in beyond IR and UV, which could also be affected by a very small subset of the materials which handles the visible light frequencies) is fairly difficult and inefficient to produce, therefore making it extraordinarily unlikely to be used as a weapon.
"Normal-looking offspring were obtained from all four strains tested."
Link from article http://www.biolreprod.org/content/early/2013/06/25/biolreprod.113.110098.abstract)
One scary a$$ line, indicates a 100% success rate.
You should re-read the abstract to see what it is really saying.
The end result is that they were able to get normal-looking offspring from all four strains tested. However, there was an excessive number of failures in the process in order to get that process. The important line over-looked indicating what it took to get those end results: "cloned offspring were born at a 2.8% birth rate". If you check table 1 of the full article it shows there were a total of 651 embryos cultured in order to get their end results.
This is very far from a 100% success rate.
The aim of the experiment was to see if a clone could be produced from more commonly available cell types. This was a desirable aim due to the fact that it would be less harmful (and/or painful) to the donor than other methods of harvesting material for cloning (which may result in permanent damage or death to the donor).
The viability rate for this method of cloning is still no greater than any other method of cloning in use. It's simply a more humane/ethical method of cloning, nothing greater.
When you read the article, this isn't actually too controversial. All that's being done is changing the timing of of when the measurements are taken and when the intermediate photons become entangled. It's really just using the entanglement process to spread out the time over which the quantum state data is transmitted. You basically have a quantum data historical record.
I can certainly see this opening up useful new capabilities in quantum computing and measurement of quantum phenomena, but it doesn't change our understanding of quantum events and how they interact with our "everyday notions of space and time.".
Assemble a tesseract.
If it can't do that, it's not a 4D printer, it's just hype about a different 3D printing method.
I remember skipping as a kid. I did it in the local mall when my family did our weekly Friday meal/shopping. I did it when I got to our meeting place while waiting for everyone else. I would skip off looking for them instead of just waiting around.
The thing is, after a month of doing this, I wasn't just skipping, I was leaping. It would be a couple of skips to build up enough rebound and then I was leaping. I was able to cover ground much faster than I would normally running in-and-out of the crowd because I could leap over shorter people (I could jump over my own height, easily bounding onto the concrete planters whose edge-tops were above my height) and keep skipping along at that pace with the rebound energy without tiring anywhere near as fast as running. I would guess looking back at it now that I only used about as much energy as jogging, but got better distance/speed.
I eventually stopped doing it because my older brother kept telling me to stop doing it because it was too embarrassing. I grudgingly complied.
Now that someone else brings it up (I was also naturally very good at broken-field running), I wonder at what the result would have been had I not listened to my brother. Could I have continued on with my skipping/leaping to the point that I built up my muscles and technique to keep up a proportionate increase in my leaping ability and set myself up with a better way to travel through crowds or would I have (much more likely) ended up blowing out my knees and/or ankles since human physiology normally doesn't seem to allow for such feats (as the biochemical reactions that allow great leaping abilities in insects reach a point of diminishing returns as you attempt to scale them up)? Perhaps I'm missing something in my evaluations that people have seen in their research in things such as the materials and techniques used in robotic exoskeletons?
California obviously would be the best for inclement weather., but has an extremely expensive costs for land, rent, and labor with high taxes and earthquakes.
It's not just earthquakes. Taking the state as a whole, California is subject to every natural disaster known to man save for volcanic eruptions. Anybody moving facilities there, when the intent is as close to 100% up-time as possible, is bloody freaking nuts.
I think Schlock cannot be mentioned enough.
The art is better quality than most web comics (or newspaper/dead tree comics), even if the style isn't going for as-real-as-possible. No storyline is ever dropped in the middle (there are cutaways to things happening on the other side of the galaxy, but these are things happening at the same time and the series will then jump right back to the main action).
Not every day has a LOL moment at the end (or during the strip), but that's because something's happening in the strip which is a very much OMG sort-of thing.
And, oh yeah, something else the parent post mentions which I've never seen any other web comic manage: a new comic every single day of the year (and it's never some kind of filler), and has done this since the comic started (which means a huge reading archive). Which means not a single day need go by without the reader getting some form of entertainment on that day.
Another article about this milestone covered #1 & #3 of what you listed.
The self-driving cars have been deliberately kept out of those situations as they are more difficult to handle, but it was noted that they would be using the compiled data to adjust the programming and have those among the tested conditions in the next phase.
As to #2, I haven't read about it being specifically tested, but the programming for such a situation is already in the self-driving cars. They stop to avoid collisions with any object, and slow down (as part of the collision avoidance programming) if an object crosses its intended path in anticipation of another object performing a similar action (like people jaywalking in a major metropolitan area).
With regards to #4, I haven't read anything anywhere that gives a definite answer about how the self-driving cars would (or may have already) handle(d) that situation.
I believe you're over-thinking the one-dimensional attribute. It simply means they're using a straight-line chain of the molecules in question. There are no molecules in the construct branching off at any other angle, that's all.
No more weak signals because something is blocking line of transmission to the nearest tower.
All I have to do to send the message from my handset is be walking around with an unlicensed particle accelerator strapped to my back. The receiver component, OTOH will need to be carried by my personal valet, The Incredible Hulk.
I wish that it was possible to mod something up further than 5 in special cases, because the post from hellkyng really is giving the best advice for what you want to do, namely making sure that the people whose data is being stored insecurely becomes stored securely. None of the other 5's in the comments are doing that, they're just "Cover your ass" advice.
Now I'm going to mod up the other post that I've seen which gives advice in line with your goals - contact some famous security professionals and see what they have to say.
This kind of experimentation provides research to something relevant to all of us, namely the Sun. It's something that very few people put any intense thought into, but is very important to us. There's also quite a bit about it that is not understood and every little bit helps, due to our dependence on its existence and how various unusual and not-well-understood (or not understood at all) phenomena can affect us.
Two quotes from the article stand out to me:
First:
"In space, molecular diffusion draws oxygen to the flame and combustion products away from the flame at a rate 100 times slower than the buoyant flow on Earth"
Talk about a slow burn...
When one considers that less than 2% of the Sun is something other than Hydrogen and Helium, and Oxygen being only another chunk of that 2% with other elements having their chunks of that respective small percentage, that quote gives us considerable insight into why the Sun and other stars burn for as long as we believe they do.
Second:
"Thus far, the most surprising thing we've observed is continued apparent burning of heptane droplets after flame extinction under certain conditions. Currently, this is entirely unexplained"
With that perspective, I wonder what unusual phenomena we might now observe (or have been observing) with the idea that there is likely burning ejecta from the sun that we might not ordinarily detect as they are much less visible without any flames.
Of course, the second quote does bring up questions about what strange phenomena might be happening terrestrially or already observed unusual terrestrial phenomena may be closer to being explained with that observation.
This second quote from the article definitely merits more research.
Looking at this quote in the article: "an overflow of workers whose skillsets don’t match with the needs of the export-led, manufacturing-based economy", it really doesn't look like China is thinking long-term.
With how quickly more human-like robotics is coming along in recent years, it looks more and more like over half of those "manufacturing-based economy" jobs could be replaced by a robot that works better for those roles for less money than a human could.
So, what does China do when all of those people are now without jobs. The same problem could be said to apply to all countries around the world as technology moves forward, but China is the one that is currently looking to concentrate people into this area that has has 'long-term obsolescence' stamped all over it. What do they do with all the people that they've trained to be unemployable, then? Soylent Green?