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I doubt that will happen anytime soon, maybe in 2050. A lot of today's people do not want to wear goggles and headphones. A simple but major reason...
Voice recognition has been available for many years, but hardly anyone uses it...
Why would smartphones and computers be gone? People have said that about e-mail for years, yet it is still the communication means of choice for many people, especially professionals.
Anyway, I tend to agree on the rest. It is a myth that the Chinese do not invent themselves, they have been a country of inventors for thousands of years. The Chinese hold about 1/3 of all 5G patents, obviously they have come up with those things themselves as one can not steal what is not there, yet.
A couple of days ago they said on TV that Huawei and other Chinese smartphone companies are already testing Huawei's new, independent operating system (Hongmeng) that is more than twice as fast as Android already, despite not being finished, yet. Seems they have been working on it for years, although not full-force as there was no need to. But now they are already filing the trademarks for their OS in many countries.
At the end of the day, the ban could work like years ago when Intel was no longer allowed to ship certain supercomputer CPU's to China, so the Chinese developed their own and are now independent.
Anyway, why would Xi not go to the G20 summit in the first place? It is quite obvious that he will attend no matter what, being the head of a major economy. Trump's blackmail attempt is silly, it's like saying, either you breathe in or I will sanction you. And then saying the person breathed in because someone told them to
Trump is a stupid, obnoxious a-hole sob. I don’t think Xi should waste his time meeting the Orange toddler. Just ignore him and get on with the business with the other 18 more important leaders.
Trump is a stupid, obnoxious a-hole sob. I don’t think Xi should waste his time meeting the Orange toddler. Just ignore him and get on with the business with the other 18 more important leaders.
Yes, I'm sure that Xi really cares what you think. You also believe that they should go head-to-head in combat with the US Navy in the SCS, etc. There are whole mechanisms built into every government to keep people like you from making decisions, lol. If we used the pennyone platform for Chinese dominance, the world would have descended into war years ago.
Why didn’t Chinese invent in tech world? It’s just like you see now, western war disrupt it and it didn’t get a chance in the past.
Why computer smartphone will be gone: with 5G, everything will be on a pair of goggles, no screen, no keyboard. Voice recognition and written transcripts will replace them.
I'm not interested in goggles that talk to me, or a fridge that can tell me the day's news. I have an iPad pro (the only Apple product I personally own), and while I can do 80% of what I can do with my laptop on it, I still use my windows laptop for most business-related tasks. 5G will undoubtedly change many things for the better but, on the consumer end, I don't think that smartphones, laptops, or tablets will disappear in the next few years.
I'm not interested in goggles that talk to me, or a fridge that can tell me the day's news. I have an iPad pro (the only Apple product I personally own), and while I can do 80% of what I can do with my laptop on it, I still use my windows laptop for most business-related tasks. 5G will undoubtedly change many things for the better but, on the consumer end, I don't think that smartphones, laptops, or tablets will disappear in the next few years.
There are lots of applications for which mobile devices such as tablets are simply not powerful enough and displays are not big enough, especially for people of a certain age.
I tried a speech recognition program (I think it was Dragon) in my text-based job and spent more time correcting the nonsense it produced than what I saved by speaking instead of typing. My brain and fingers are so used to typing and editing on the keyboard, I don't have to think about it anymore, no speech recognition is that fast.
Xi, and China as a whole, are not anywhere near as tough as they posture themselves to be. What cracks me up is that there are so many people around the world who fall for it.
I guess the difference is that I never said I hated China (I don't). I'm certainly critical of the negative aspects of it and it's foreign policy, but if it was terrible here or I hated it, I wouldn't live here... admittedly, I'm actually leaving for the States in a couple days to look at property and businesses, but, I'm still content with my life here.
I'm fine with the US' hegemony being challenged or replaced but if it is, I'd prefer if it's replaced with something better. Did you ever live in China? How long ago, and for how long? After my six years here, I'm not at all convinced that it would be "better," especially not for anyone who's not ethnically Chinese, or for the environment or the animal kingdom.
I guess the difference is that I never said I hated China (I don't). I'm certainly critical of the negative aspects of it and it's foreign policy, but if it was terrible here or I hated it, I wouldn't live here... admittedly, I'm actually leaving for the States in a couple days to look at property and businesses, but, I'm still content with my life here.
I'm fine with the US' hegemony being challenged or replaced but if it is, I'd prefer if it's replaced with something better. Did you ever live in China? How long ago, and for how long? After my six years here, I'm not at all convinced that it would be "better," especially not for anyone who's not ethnically Chinese, or for the environment or the animal kingdom.
I agree with you there, but the Chinese are not trying to replace the us.
Just popping in to remind a few of you that they met and agreed to restart trade talks. Trump may be an unpleasant character and not a specifically good leader, but then the same can be applied to Xi Jinping, who is simply cruising on the hard work that previous administrations in China created and pretending that they are his victories.
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People have said that about e-mail for years, yet it is still the communication means of choice for many people, especially professionals. 
