"Asia has strengths that promise to make it a leading center of technological innovation in the 21st century. These strengths are substantial, fundamental, and durable. At their base lie aspects of culture, on both a civilizational and generational time scale. Human capital and the capacity for mobilization build on these cultural advantages."
If you read no other essays on this year on China, global innovation or the decline of US technological preeminence – READ THIS ARTICLE
In three pages, Eric Drexler compellingly provides the historic and analytical underpinnings to what is abundantly clear in my newest film – Win In China
An enormous population educated to the world’s highest academic standards, combined with a historical drive for change and a cultural capacity to mobilize resources, makes China the odds on favorite for technological and entrepreneurial leadership in this century.
Thanks for sharing this article. I'm heading back to China at the end of the month for a 21st Century Skills Conference in Xi Hu, so these issues are really on the forefront of my mind.
Posted by: Wesley Fryer | 10/13/2009 at 06:06 AM