This delightfully meandering year in review is well worth the readhttps://twitter.com/danwwang/status/1212495618255421440 …
“Instead of realizing its own Sputnik moment, the US is triggering one in China”pic.twitter.com/HQK3ULUAR7
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“The saying I picked up when I worked in California is that knowledge travels at the speed of beer. Engineers like to share, and it’s hard to stop technical knowledge from diffusing.”pic.twitter.com/lKuZZg4aUm
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“Instead of being hooked on drugs and TV like in PKD’s novels, people in Hong Kong are addicted to the extraordinary flow of liquidity from the mainland, which raises their asset values and dulls their senses”pic.twitter.com/q0mUeOtbur
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“I’m advocating to treat science fiction as a political project, to spur a better vision of the future as well as the hard work to make it reality”pic.twitter.com/WgZ5l5xX8m
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“The lesson I draw from these books is something like the following: the most important priorities in war are management of material resources, then operational excellence, and finally general strategy”pic.twitter.com/azJvKwK4bp
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“There were essentially two manufacturing principles in the 19th century: the British focused more on cultivating highly-skilled master craftsmen; the US placed greater emphasis on mechanization and the interchangeability of parts.”pic.twitter.com/izfPGbF9ef
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“Shockley, Texas Instruments, and Fairchild were set up explicitly with the idea of capturing the lucrative contracts of the US Air Force.”pic.twitter.com/ufFCY6rmV8
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“Beijing was founded to be the point that connects the horse lands of the north with the rice lands of the south.”pic.twitter.com/ikO8bDZHzn
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“The conversations one has in San Francisco and New York now feel so limited, to no more than a dozen topics that people turn over and over again. I wish that more young people would spend some time living abroad.”pic.twitter.com/N4qvUklwRY
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