Good poast, as per usual. Although I may push back a little on the level of mastery of western technics that the east has ostensibly achieved. To be sure, China has some great achievements under the belt (I am thinking of their quantum computation, key distribution with satellites, or teleportation along The Wall or perhaps their achievements in fusion, but this is, as always, 20 years away), but it seems to me that they lack the collective ability to consistently originate and implement these ideas as a culture. This is evidenced by the high rate of IP theft from the west, which is likely allowed them to conduct the aforementioned experiments successfully in the first place.
I think the historians of the far future will consider 1914 to have been the peak of our civilization.
Good poast, as per usual. Although I may push back a little on the level of mastery of western technics that the east has ostensibly achieved. To be sure, China has some great achievements under the belt (I am thinking of their quantum computation, key distribution with satellites, or teleportation along The Wall or perhaps their achievements in fusion, but this is, as always, 20 years away), but it seems to me that they lack the collective ability to consistently originate and implement these ideas as a culture. This is evidenced by the high rate of IP theft from the west, which is likely allowed them to conduct the aforementioned experiments successfully in the first place.
Good points. I do want to do an analysis of their "patent lead" to see what exactly they are patenting to lead in