> the new growth sectors – smartphones, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI). An analogue world is rapidly going digital, and Germany has been painfu

> the new growth sectors – smartphones, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI). An analogue world is rapidly going digital, and Germany has been painfully slow to realize that There is an important silver lining in being "slow". You learn from the mistakes of the "fast" ones. You don't need to look too deeply in the "move fast and break things" tech sector to see not just mistakes but major disasters: destroying people's privacy and agency, historically unprecedented power concentration, rampant regulatory arbitrage, demolition of important sectors such as journalism etc. The real issue is that Germany (as key actor within the EU) has been for some time paying lip service to an alternative, less dystopic "digital world", but not delivering.