Did You Know? …. Shift Happens
March 29th, 2007
You may enjoy this You Tube video a colleague sent me with the following message:
Chris: In four minutes this video captures some of the vision of the future I have been spouting off about since my first trip to China ten years ago. I can remember standing on a bridge in Guangzhou during that trip at rush hour and seeing more people pass by me in fifteen minutes than pass by me all day on a sidewalk in [City X]. I knew the numbers were against us.
I agree with him and the overall theme that this video seeks to convey. And seeing some of the points made in this video first hand is one of the reasons we have put this course and trip together for you. Perhaps more than ever, success in the future will go to those individuals, businesses and countries who best deal with and adapt to this shifting world. Straight up: in the future each of us will need to run even faster ….
Entry Filed under: Pre-Departure, China, Guangzhou, Misc.
9 Comments Add your own
1. nanheyangrouchuan | March 29th, 2007 at 9:54 am
That is soooo 2001. China wouldn’t be anywhere were it not for foreign FDI and generous tech transfers.
2. Lonnie | March 29th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Being elitist by claiming credit for someone’s rise to power doesn’t negate their potential influence….
The Japanese, long ago, stole their way to technological superiority using our ideas, but are now the #2 economic power in the world…
Business is Business…
It is a good wake-up call…
3. nanheyangrouchuan | March 30th, 2007 at 7:52 am
The Japanese didn’t have to steal, we gave it willingly to them as part of reconstruction. They turned out crap but knuckled down and perfected their products.
Business is business? IBM used the same excuse for selling calculating machines to the Nazis.
4. Lonnie | March 30th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
No, they perfected our products. Their patent laws are a bit different and lend themselves to adaptation without consequence.
IBM? That is soo 1940s.
5. nanheyangrouchuan | March 31st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
That’s nice, Lonnie is a holocaust apologist. Is that the kind of business ethics taught at Cal-poly SLB? I can quickly google some holocaust hunters, especially of the Hebrew variety. They’ll really dig this.
Typical souless MBA corporate shill. I suppose you’ve got a business plan to sell accounting systems to the Sudanese gov’t so they can keep track of their, ahem, work?
BTW, Japan’s patent laws have nothing to do with technology we willingly gave them for their own use and benefit, we do it alot with our military tech.
6. Chris Carr | April 1st, 2007 at 8:21 am
nanoman,
By attacking Lonnie are you suggesting that the the Holocaust never happened and/or that its seriousness has been overstated?
Wow.
I am not Jewish. Yet as a non-Jew I am disappointed and disturbed by what you are suggesting and appear to believe.
And what, pray tell, does the Holocaust or Holocaust hunters even remotely have to do with this post?
Keep up the trash talk, big man, and I am more than happy to permanently ban you from this blog. I have zero tolerance for such games, prevarications, distortions of history, and attacks. Do you know that when you spew such cyberspace garbage it gives people a reason to take you even less seriously than they already do? And if you make such ridiculous statements or inneuendos, at least have the guts to put your real name behind them rather than hide behind the nanoman handle.
In my opinion …
7. nanheyangrouchuan | April 1st, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Hey Chris,
Review Lonnie’s statement defeding IBM’s sale of tabulating machines to Nazi Germany, knowing full well what they were used for and who is anti-semite? Ban me and this blog will be on its way to Tel-Aviv. Many china bloggers use handles. SInocidal, Peking Duck, Danwei, etc. No one wants the kind of trouble that comes with expressing your real opinion as a foreigner in China. Maybe if you actually lived there for awhile instead of preaching business from the safety of SLO.
Lonnie’s defending of IBM’s involvement with the Nazis simply reinforces the position of corporations that “I can sell you something and even though I know you are going to do something with it, I don’t think I have any liability because I didn’t actually participate in comitting the act”.
Go ahead and try that, sell a gun to a known crimminal, sell over the counter drugs to a known meth manufacturer and try that logic in court.
8. Lonnie | April 1st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
No one defends the holocaust in my house—OR Nanjing OR Manchuria OR Rwanda OR…
I have actively campained against war crimes most of my cyber-life and will contuinue to do so…
IBM was introduced into the equation by YOU and I am still not really sure why…
9. Chris Carr | April 1st, 2007 at 8:02 pm
nanoman,
I actually like Tel-Aviv!
Having you temporarily visit us in cyberspace provided two (and only two) benefits:
1. In my opinion you helped illustrate for students that there are members of society who loathe business and have no intention of giving it a fair shake, any time, any place, or in any part of the world. Sometimes such folks have a legitimate beef; but most times their reasons and axes to grind are just plain silly.
2. In my opinion hate and anger toward others appear to be as alive and well in today’s world as they were centuries ago.
Without your proudly admitted blog “attacks” I could not have made such points come to life for students in a traditional classroom setting. These young men and women are now better prepared to spot such societal stakeholders and respond accordingly. THANK YOU!!
From reading your posts across a number of blogs and across time I do not believe you are interested in a constructive debate and dialogue but only furthering some strange agenda. In my opinion you appear to have missed the lesson that most learn on the playground as kids — play nice. Thus, I’m afraid I will take one of your toys away. Tomorrow when I am back in my office and have a few minutes I will pull the plug on your access to this blog.
Best of luck in the future.
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