What if GWB is about to conquer [india&china&vietnam], too?
A job move from TX to [india|china|vietnam] would be geopolitically equivalent to a job move from TX to AZ.
Considering the additional bugfixing/PM mentioned in the earlier post, offshoring does even increase the number of "US" jobs! Now that's a sound economic policy!
Well, looks like if no other human gives a s**t about you, you can still send your name in sideral depths and get a feeling that at least there somebody might love you. Or the idea of you.
There appears to be a pattern over the course of history and across the borders of countries: science follows brains, technology follows science and (probably) wealth follows technology.
Building a link between wealth and brains is one of the levers that sustains this cycle and keeps it in defined geographic boundaries, because it attracts/binds brains.
On the opposite, there are levers that can disrupt the cycle and lead to a geographical shift of brains. Beside the effect of wars - as described in previous contributions - the significance of religion (not religion in itself) can be a repulsive factor for brains.
The current level of technological penetration in a developed country is by no mean a valid predictor for future growth, even less than current wealth. Technology has become opaque for most of its common users (how many of our kids who passionately use a GSM phone does in fact know how such a phone works?): learning to use a technology is often based on imitation, not on understanding. Meanwhile mathematics and physics are more than ever at risk of losing their role as "princesses of science" in favour of fuzzier/softer disciplines. In this context the foundations to further develop/extend our technological advantage are shrinking.
Sitting on your/our laurels will not help on the long term, even less if the bedding of a sound scientific culture is endangered.
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What if GWB is about to conquer [india&china&vietnam], too? A job move from TX to [india|china|vietnam] would be geopolitically equivalent to a job move from TX to AZ. Considering the additional bugfixing/PM mentioned in the earlier post, offshoring does even increase the number of "US" jobs! Now that's a sound economic policy!
Well, looks like if no other human gives a s**t about you, you can still send your name in sideral depths and get a feeling that at least there somebody might love you. Or the idea of you.
"I think one of my old professors summed it up best.
Engineers:
The A students go into teaching/academia
The B students get most of the jobs.
The C students go into / switch to management"
Does it wonder that a Professor is making such a statement? He could have saved some breath if he just said "I'm great, I was an AA student".
There appears to be a pattern over the course of history and across the borders of countries: science follows brains, technology follows science and (probably) wealth follows technology.
Building a link between wealth and brains is one of the levers that sustains this cycle and keeps it in defined geographic boundaries, because it attracts/binds brains.
On the opposite, there are levers that can disrupt the cycle and lead to a geographical shift of brains. Beside the effect of wars - as described in previous contributions - the significance of religion (not religion in itself) can be a repulsive factor for brains.
The current level of technological penetration in a developed country is by no mean a valid predictor for future growth, even less than current wealth. Technology has become opaque for most of its common users (how many of our kids who passionately use a GSM phone does in fact know how such a phone works?): learning to use a technology is often based on imitation, not on understanding. Meanwhile mathematics and physics are more than ever at risk of losing their role as "princesses of science" in favour of fuzzier/softer disciplines. In this context the foundations to further develop/extend our technological advantage are shrinking.
Sitting on your/our laurels will not help on the long term, even less if the bedding of a sound scientific culture is endangered.
Fight massification. Be the wolf, not the sheep.