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Re:The World China Is Building by ke88y on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:11PM (#36852900)
> The capitalist system pursues frontier technologies and profits, but companies like Huawei pursue scalability to the forgotten people of the world. For better or worse, it’s San Francisco or Shenzhen. For many countries in the Global South, the model of development exemplified by Shenzhen seems more plausible and attainable. Nobody thinks they can replicate Silicon Valley, but many seem to think they can replicate Chinese infrastructure-driven middle-class consumerism.

Is the San Francisco model sustainable, even in the west? The USA has maybe a half century left before its 20th century infrastructure is entirely deprecated and it has to stop pretending the real world is made of bits.

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Re:The World China Is Building by slimebot80 on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:18PM (#36856576)
Do the Global South want to buy into surveillance technology this badly?

It's way more complex.

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