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When .005% of communication on City-data is conducted in Chinese, I will certainly sit up and take notice.
City-data is a miniscule portion of the internet though, so I'm not sure what that would be a proxy for.
Not that I agree with the OP's statement. The Anglosphere will still be a strong driving force for decades even though their internet infrastructure needs work--which it will likely get eventually. East Asia will certainly increase in prominence but it won't have the kind of dominance the Anglo Sphere has had shortly after the end of the Cold War and the US's misstep with the wars and global recession--instead, what is likely to happen is that there will be several strong nations and regional blocs.
Japan and China already have super fast railways USA and Britain would dream of
most of the power of the Anglosphere is due to the (about to end) monopoly of Dollar/Sterling in Forex and international exchanges
And the UK has a higher internet penetration rate, and faster download speeds. So in what way is China leading the way in tech? Half of its population don't even have an internet connection. Away from the big cities, most of China is still like a rural farming village.
And the UK has a higher internet penetration rate, and faster download speeds. So in what way is China leading the way in tech? Half of its population don't even have an internet connection. Away from the big cities, most of China is still like a rural farming village.
Well, the urbanization percentage of China is very high and China has a lot of big cities. In aggregate, even if the percentage isn't as high, China's moving towards a lot stronger technological infrastructure in some ways.
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The value of USA manufacturing is 4 times more per person than the Chinese and last time I checked, the USA still led the world in the value of their manufactured goods. I would expect China to pass us at any time but they are doing so with 4 times the population of the USA.
Now that robotics are being used more, the manufacturing base is coming back to the USA due to a greater ability to adapt fast and change tooling than the Chinese although the recent dollar strength may slow this.
As far as technology, the USA leads the world and no one is close....that may change but that is not evident on the horizon at this time. The fact that another country like S Korea has faster internet is troubling but they haven't shown much creativity in their products. I worked at Samsung Engineering in Seoul and although they are hard working and fast, the all together culture doesn't produce new ideas and technology's...that's still the domain of USA, Europeans and Israelis.
Also, the idea that South Korea isn't producing new innovations seems inaccurate, especially from an engineering perspective (makes sense, since a lot of the actual chips, sensors, screens, etc. provided to US companies such as Apple are actually engineered and designed by Samsung and manufactured in China). Regardless, South Korea has been a major player for only a short amount of time.
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