China’s innovation dilemma Tech advances have been impressive, but constraints on business productivity and imagination are a major obstacle.
A robotic arm arranges dice during the 2021 World Digital Industry Expo in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, 24 March 2021 (Ma Jian/VCG via Getty Images) Published 10 May 2021 12:00 0 Comments
It has long been conventional wisdom that China would struggle to become an innovative nation. China’s controlled society, with lack of freedom of speech and expression, propaganda and censorship, together with an education system that emphasises rote learning and memorisation have been judged to limit creativity and the development of new ideas. As one report in the
Washington’s tech industry hasn’t been immune to the pandemic. Companies such as the IT giant DXC and the event-organizing platform Cvent cut jobs amid the slowdown. But some, including the hot cloud-computing company Appian, committed to hundreds of new hires.
Indeed, plenty of other good business news came from Washingtonian’s Tech Titans during the past year. Our 2021 winners who were selected through both reporting and an informal process of nominations from their peers managed to start up new and innovative companies, close on huge funding rounds, ink massive contracts, and announce initial public offerings.
Some of this year’s Tech Titans expanded their companies not only in spite of the pandemic but because of it. Michael Chasen, founder of the “edtech” firm Blackboard, leveraged the demand for at-home education to launch Class, a company that creates virtual classrooms using Zoom. Class has already raised more than $40 million. Blake Hall, founder of ID.me, wh
Is the glass half empty or half full?
We are in the wake of another round of trillion-dollar expenditures and folks are talking about devaluing the dollar as China and Russia scheme to unpeg the dollar with their own. What does Wall Street do? What did Nero do while Rome burned?
Not sure if folks know if a Trillion = a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10 exp12).
And we are going to push 7 T’s to 11 T’s real soon.
Trump’s Border wall was around $8 billion $12 billion tops Trump’s 576-mile border wall is expected to cost nearly $20 million per mile. As long as the Fed smiles toward Wall Street before the Tsunamis hits, it’ll be right as rain… You could build 50,000 miles of border wall = 1,000,000,000,000 divided by 20,000,000