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This is just the beginning, both for robots and for asian dominance. Culture plays a huge role, and in our culture we're happy to watch Reality TV and let gover
by MCRed 11y ago
This is just the beginning, both for robots and for asian dominance. Culture plays a huge role, and in our culture we're happy to watch Reality TV and let government babysit our kids. Government doesn't care about robot competitions. I assume in Korea but believe in general in asia, the parents are more on top of their kids, so that even if they have a "lower quality" government (Which is always debatable) in China, for instance, eventually we're going to be less and less the source of these kinds of technical advances over time.
Hell, even if the chinese culture doesn't inspire creativity and achievement, just by demographics they should produce three times as many innovations as us, since if the innovative people are %0.1 of the population, they have three times the population.
- melling 11y ago"Government doesn't care about robot competitions." That was a DARPA competition they won.
- noobermin 11y agoWhich confuses me. I wasn't aware DARPA opened it's competitions to non-USA teams.
- nether 11y agoWell, now you're aware.
- noobermin 11y agoUnfortunately, it seems my comment was taken with an assumed connotation. I simply wasn't aware that DARPA opened it to any one outside of the US since, well, it's DARPA. It probably wasn't the most insightful comment in the world, but, yes--now I am aware.
- munin 11y agowhy wouldn't they?
- gdy 11y agoD is for Defense
- melling 11y agoNot a big deal. Do a little research instead of making assumptions. I found a German entry in the 2007 Grand Challenge: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2007)#National_Qualification_Event http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2007)#...
- sho_hn 11y agoYes, parents do push kids quite hard in South Korea, because studying hard and getting into good schools are seen as plain necessary for success in life. But that doesn't necessarily mean the quality of education is fantastic -- a lot of the after-school classes kids get worked to death in are snake oil levels bad, and the teaching methods applied in the primary schools are often sub-par as well. Meanwhile many students suffer a great deal in that highly competitive pressure cooker, and it contributes to an unusually high teenage suicide rate for the country. Education and parenting are complex. Education is not as simple as quantity-does-the-trick, and parenting isn't as simple as applying pressure.
- adventured 11y agoYour entire premise is wrong. Japan has proven how easily an Asian giant can fall (just as easily as any other), how quickly they can lose their edge and stagnate. Demographics and the size of the population has absolutely no correlation to production in any regard. Pakistan has 182 million people; Nigeria has 173 million people. By your incorrect premise, Pakistan should produce ~55% as many innovations as the US, and Nigeria ~52%. Whoops, turns out it's a lot more complicated than having a lot of people.
- spb 11y agoWhenever I read Western diatribes about China now, I can only think of http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-american-pundits-china-isnt-a-country-its-a-fantasyland/2015/05/29/24ba60e0-0431-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-american-pundits-...
- digitalzombie 11y agoYour comment is just speculation. Currently the most nobel prize won and research papers published is USA. There are many areas that one can dominate, I'm unsure that Robotic is Asia as a whole continent and also when you mention Asia... Middle East and Russia can be consider Asia too. I'm not sure what you are comparing this to probably USA or Western countries but I don't think this comparison is useful at all cause of the generality. But this is just glass ball looking. Good job for Korea and I think it's good for the whole world if more and more countries gets better at things.
- x0054 11y agoWhy is it that after looking at this rather cool competition, and looking at all the cool technology that is coming out of it, you reduce it to "South Korea > USA?"