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You remember that whole story about the cannon launcher competition where one team tries to take the meticulous approach of calculating the trajectory arc neede
by troughway 6y ago
You remember that whole story about the cannon launcher competition where one team tries to take the meticulous approach of calculating the trajectory arc needed to hit the target, while the other team starts shooting and readjusts as they go?
Or the one about the art class where one team meticulously plans things out and produces some unfinished shoddy work, while the other team keeps churning out bad pieces but eventually starts churning out good pieces in volume?
Well, at 1.4 billion people, China can most certainly keep churning out bad pieces and readjusting, and they will get much better, much faster than a lot of other countries would.
That it's 2020 and they still aren't seen as the leader of the world in everything has historic roots that have bred a lot of resentment in China towards the West. In particular, the meddling of US in China's affairs.
But the pendulum is swinging. Let's see what happens next.
- fxtentacle 6y agoI had never thought about it like that before :) Yes, China definitely has the volume of people necessary to just try out everything and see what sticks. In that case, the solution might be for governments to massively invest into making the tools available for free to pretty much every citizen, so that in the west, one person can run the same number of experiments as 100 people in China.