“The China Convergence” (N. S. Lyons)

Thoughts on the similarity, and dissimilarity, of managerial regimes in today's America and today's China, through the prism of the excellent N. S. Lyons.
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Excellent presentation. Thank you

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1984 2.0

[@americameinyourmouth9964]

The managerial revolution was exaggerated as the assumption was technocratic capitalism would lead to monopoly capital which has been hyperbole since the progressive era of the early 20th century. But I do fear we are moving towards bottlenecks in technological development as the relatively simpler technologies of the past that a single inventor could make in their lab or garage have been invented. Now the future break throughs in AI, Robotics, Fusion Energy ex cetera will require far more technical specialization meaning even larger teams of scientists meaning institutional domination of future breakthroughs.