Engineering

China has become a science / engineering super power over the past 20 years

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/12/china-has-become-a-scientific-superpower

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

One thing I notice in the West especially is this tendency to severely underestimate how much change China has gone through in the past 30ish years. It’s unprecedented at a scale that I don’t portend to even attempt to understand as well, but I think it’s severely overlooked as many in the West

I lived in China for 7 years. The speed of change is incredible. Everyone has an entrepreneurial spirit and is willing to embrace change and try new things.

When I arrived in China Alipay and Wechatpay were just starting and I witnessed the transformation from a cash only society to a cashless society in only 6 years