get through to viewWelcome back to MangoBot , a biweekly column about Asiatic futurism byTokyoMangoblogger Lisa Katayama . I ’m a total sportswoman fruitcake . Olympic season make my bones thrill with excitement . But this yr , I took my judgment off record - break swimming relays and super - twisty gymnastics routines for a minute to consider the horde country ’s techno - socio - political future . The opening ceremony confirmed my theory that China is breed robots . ( We already bonk that the precious young lady who perform the patriotic songwas lip - syncingand that the fireworks show on TVwere fake . I ’m jolly certain that the 2008 drummer who kicked off the five - hour technological spectacularity were androids , too . ) But what else is up in the gargantuan Carry Amelia Moore Nation that many trust will be the next world major power ? I called some expert and came away with a list of five predictions for China ’s next half - century .
1 . The dystopic communistic government will extend . While some China experts think that democratization is an inevitable first footstep to full economic domination , Andy Nathan , author ofHow East Asians View majority rule
, believes otherwise . “ China has authoritarian resilience , ” he suppose . “ If ( the current regime ) was not think to survive modernization , it ’s prove very adaptable . ” In other words , as long as Hu Jintao ’s government can prove itself effective albeit its shortcomings , the hoi polloi will continue to sustain their loyalty to it . Nathan does pinpoint one dear solution to convey republic and human right to China . The current government could be topple , he says , if China were to be pip with a serial of lifelike disasters , terrorist attacks , and bad political decisions ( like if they invade Iraq and accrued a vast budget deficit … hint confidential information ) . If the current government relies on a certain self-complacency cushioned by the fact that , while it ’s tyrannous and jazz up , it somehow seems to be working , a mechanical nonstarter of the government machine could unleash the unrest and cause a gyration . Simply put : The dystopic Communist government that punishes gratis will and uses force toil to build the economy may continue to decree China until a superhuman disaster pass over it out of cosmos .
2 . A giant amount of wind power will up the body politic ’s hip - and - cool factor . Green tech is the Modern black - it ’s the symbol of belonging in the hip and cool rural area clique . China plans to be the hippest and the coolest by 2020 by becoming the populace loss leader in wind energy . concord toEcoWorldly.com , the country currently produces about 6GW of wind vigour , which makes it 5th in the world . Some experts believe that China will arrive at at least 100GW in the next 12 year . That ’s an increase of 1667 % ! China still swear a slew on sure-enough school day energy resources like coal for its imitation Prada pocketbook manufacturing plant , but a 2005 lawmaking mandates all utilities to be issue by renewable energy . Clean tech cash in hand are being buy up like lichi at street point of view .
3 . Joe Chen will be the next Steve Jobs . While engineering is a dwindle down profession in the US , it ’s booming in blank space like China and India . Only a decennary or two ago , students from China entered Harvard and MIT and then stay on in the land to pursue their careers . Now , they ’re all drop dead back home because they believe that ’s where they can have the most impingement . Joe Chen , for one , is a Stanford grad who establish popular entertainment siteMop.comandXiaonei , the local equivalent of Facebook . He ’s going to be the next Steve Jobs , minus the mordant turtleneck sweater . Rebecca Fannin , author ofSilicon Dragon : How China is win the Tech Race
, consider that Beijing will be the hub of the next Silicon Valley . China also has the debauched produce number of patents - it ’s currently seventh in the world - and have the existence ’s with child Internet market place . “ Venture capitalists are all looking for the next novel matter in China , ” she says . “ Taiwanese entrepreneur are hard working and passionate , and they ’re get noesis from the US back home . ” China is n’t just the hub of chintzy caricature handbags anymore . It is , in the end , rapidly and most for sure , inching up the manufacture nutrient chain and will lead the next major foundation cycles/second in web - based technical school .
4 . Beijing will go head - to - promontory with Dubai in an architectural prestige contest . Dubai is the world working capital of futuristic construction , but China ’s not doing so regretful either . Beijing already has a unhinged new drome , not to remark the Water Cube and the Birds ’ Nest . Plans to fabricate atube - fed eco - metropolis , islands made from scratch , and aStarfleet Academy - comparable museumare well underway and we should be encounter results within the next ten years . “ The political science office and building companies are start for prestigiousness labor that break the mould , ” Nathan says . “ They ’re going to proceed to go for constant electrical shock value . ” We ’ll see what go on when the tinny IKEA - grade foundation jump give out . Until then , enjoy the cool futuristic citiscapes as they pop up left and right . 5 . As China ’s worldwide market share grows , so will our likelihood of becoming robotlike drummer . Right now , companies like GM , Johnson and Johnson , and Coca Cola produce first and foremost for the US market . But this will change . As the Taiwanese customer base catches up in size and influence , the manner products are marketed and clientele is done will ineluctably transfer to run into demand . “ American political values are very distinctive , ” Nathan says . “ We trust in guns , we consider in the law , and we believe in religion . If the Chinese were dominant , the spheric marketplace would be more collectivized , concord - orient , less rights - concious , and more about have through matter without cause a ruckus than about suing the great unwashed . ” Think of Japan and the way the marketplace there still has many of the formalities and customs aboriginal to the Japanese . “ Values never completely disappear , ” Nathan says . There ’s no doubt that China will be the bighearted world market in fifty years . The question is , how is this going to affect what we do and how we do it ? peradventure one day we will all become drum humanoid and synchronization will supersede individuality . Images : Madiko83 via Flickr , George Lu via Flickr , and AP )
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