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I hate making generalizations about huge entities like states, but I can't resist on this one. I think this kind of thing will ultimately trip China up, and pr
by awt 16y ago
I hate making generalizations about huge entities like states, but I can't resist on this one. I think this kind of thing will ultimately trip China up, and prevent China from ever gaining a significant technological lead. The more closed their internet is, the less ideas people will be exposed to, and thus there will continue to be less innovation.
- alexqgb 16y agoObsessively trying to force toothpaste back into the tube does not telegraph a general sense of well-being and confidence. China may be a 'superpower'. But a 'superpower' like the US? Or the USSR? Obviously they've avoided the worst tendencies of the latter, but will they every master the best aspects of the former? Alternately, will we continuing relentlessly undermining our own advantages to the point where China doesn't have to bother taking civil liberty seriously?
- awt 16y agoIndeed, the US could kill the goose that lays golden eggs as well.
- dschobel 16y agoWhen you have an economy on the scale of China's you can afford to lag the cutting edge. A captive market of 1.3B people makes up for a lot of inefficiencies.