You know, I think the US needs to force more hardware specs for components into the internet as a precondition to selling here. I think it would help the follow

You know, I think the US needs to force more hardware specs for components into the internet as a precondition to selling here. I think it would help the following things: 1) China and "the East" have a dominance in hardware. I don't think this is strategically good. I think we need a lot more skills in hardware electronics, especially if we electrify all our transport and have PV everywhere. 2) I think it is good for the environment: more broken crap can be recycled to adhoc devices and other uses, or might (gasp) be repaired. 3) It will help us be more creative with hardware to maintain the innovator's edge. 4) It will help with onshoring production for supply chain security. This is a country-level existential threat right now. Consider that COVID, which by all historical standards is a very very very weak pandemic, caused such disruption and insecurity in our day to day supplies. 5) I just get the sense that software innovation is declining, well, before chatGPT, but it seems we had a solid decade of "what's the next social network" was the height of software innovation. Um, no it's not, that is deck chair reshuffling. Of course corporations don't like it, so oh well, it'll be dead on arrival.