Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
I remember the 80’s, when we all thought Japan was going to take over Hawaii and end up ruling the world financially instead of militarily. Michael Creighton wrote an excellent book called “Rising Sun” about corporate Japan, which rang true back then, but is largely irrelevant these days.
This article made sense to me.
Out here in flyover country, at least in the South, values are still here. The Bible belt is alive and well. We are in a seething rage at the elites, but we still believe in the Founding principles. Lots of babies being born too.
In general technology is getting stronger while the people are getting weaker in the USA.
That said. There are three or four very big technological revolutions in the wings that will fundamentally change this country.
MIT has a list of ten technologies.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534976/nano-architecture/
But I think their work misses the big picture.
The fracking revolution in the last five years has underpinned the obama years by creating several trillion new dollars for the USA (instead of fiat money). But that’s just the first wave in the energy revolution. The next wave comes in 5 years when electric car batteries are produced in volume and begin the demand destruction for oil. It will be the most beautiful time in history to be have a car. Because fuel prices will be driven steadily downward by competition between new types of internal combustion engines that are super fuel efficient and ever cheaper cheaper electric cars and even natural gas trucks and buses. Judging by the amount of money that Toyata pours into Hydrogen fuel cell cars—these cars will be a player too.
That’s the second wave of the energy revolution. The third wave of the energy revolution comes when fourth generation nuclear reactors come online that collapse the cost of base load electricity to 1/2 -1/4 the coast of current cheapest coal based electricity costs.
There will be a secondary knock on effect of dirt cheap electricity prices. It will become economical to do desalination for agriculture. this will result in the world’s deserts being turned into new farm land. that will double the size of habitable earth.
There is a manufacturing revolution gaining speed now in three d printing and advanced robotics which will return most of US manufacturing from abroad.
The medical revolution and really the combined new knowledge on the relationship between food and health will extend lives significantly.
Materials reasearch and genetics will be doing unknown things in the future.
Somewhere out in the future quantum computers will be perfected. Their effects will be to collapse time frames in the way the railroad and airplanes did in the 19th ad 20th centuries.
Not only is technology changing but the rate of change is acceleration —not slowing down.