Interesting critical review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90590134-the-coming-wave https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90590134-the-coming-wave >...

Interesting critical review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90590134-the-coming-wave https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90590134-the-coming-wave >... >Given that The coming wave assumes that technology comes in waves and these waves are driven by the insiders, the solution it proposes is containment—governments should determine (via regulation) who gets to develop the technology, and what uses they should put the technology to. The assumption seems to be that governments can control access to natural choke points in the technology. One figure the book offers is how around 80% of the sand used in semiconductors comes from a single mine—control the mine and you control much of that aspect of the industry. This is not true though. Nuclear containment, for example, relies more on peer pressure between nation states, than regulation per se. It’s quite possible to build a reactor or bomb in your backyard. The more you scale up these efforts, the more it’s likely that the international community will notice and press you to stop. Squeezing on one of these choke points it more likely to move the activity somewhere else, then enable you to control it. >... >At its heart this is a book by and insider arguing that someone is going to develop this world-changing technology, and it should be them.