Thursday, November 1, 2018

How the US Lost Technology Dominance


This started with dumbing down the schools. Math was not taught effectively and basics were missed. New Math was unnecessary and distracted students away from the basics. Common Core Math caused moms to create a prolonged protest against it.

The popular culture celebrated irrelevancy. If technology could make something fun, it was made even if it was unnecessary.

US technology was used to develop products that were irrelevant. We already had phones and smart-phones were not really needed. Facebook wasn’t needed. M-TV wasn’t needed. Texting wasn’t needed.

There were advancements in technology that were relevant and that began with the PC and the productivity increase it brought.

The electronic production of text and data allowed us to abandon paper records. This allowed barcode scanning to streamline inventories. Everybody could produce their own typed records. Software allowed the transfer of records to control all administrative functions. This created a cyber security problem we need to fix, but we haven’t.

Electronics technology had advanced to allow wireless connections for phones, computers and other devices. Advances in digital signal processing allowed phones to be converted from analog to digital. TV transmission advanced to allow flat screen monitors. Chips were developed to handle more transactions and storage. The development of microelectronics allowed for surface-mount components on circuit boards.  Battery development created the hybrid car.   Everything got smaller, cheaper and faster.

The internet was needed to replace public libraries, magazines, newspapers and TV news, but that didn’t happen. 

The internet was needed to cost reduce education, but that didn’t happen. The education bureaucracy protects its own.

US companies stopped protecting their intellectual property.
They entered agreements with China to allow intellectual property theft. US companies invited “partners” who were here to steal technology.

The Global Economy hoax was launched and US companies became “citizens of the world”. But they should have known that all economies are national. Consequently, Asia dominates technology.

US auto companies got distracted with muscle cars and lost the US market. All other US manufacturers were encouraged to off-shore manufacturing after NAFTA in 1993.
US technical national security secrets cannot be shared with our Globalist-leaning companies and universities.  Our development of technology for military purposes must be done by loyal, vetted defense contractors.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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