Bloke wins womens cycling race, page-49

" just that it will be generally satisfactory. Not brilliant, not disastrous."

we differ then - my reasoning is that in the future - this is NOT going to be like 1950 or 1990 or now, where you can sit around and say - 'ok troops, we are a bit behind the game here - it's time that we make a definite effort to catch up'


Imagine that you are a car racing team in say -------- 1910 or 192o --

and, you do nothing -- then, you arrive at the F1 scene in 2018 --

with nothing but, your old technology, your old knowledge base - nothing else

how long will it be before you can get up to speed?


Now - if we think that that is an absurd example -- then, have a look at what other countries are doing and have a look at what Australia is doing

then, add on the GATHERING pace of technological development.

America - which could be a waning power - has Silicon Valley - it has the googles, the Apples, MS, heavens knows what else.

China - is spending TRILLIONS on AI ---------- 'trillions' - do we know what a trillion actually is??


Now, look at Australia --------- tiny population - education going backwards. debt rising, income side of the balance sheet precarious, reliant on natural resources - which, in the past - has been lumpy but, hugely profitable over longer periods --------- BUT, many other parts of the world are catching up or caught up and will beat the bejesus out of us in a royalty race to the bottom - AND,our companies are foreign owned anyway - and, being automated.

We are putting less and less into education and research - and putting more and more attention into blokes winning bike races --

that is the perfect recipe for a major slide backwards - and, in a high tech environment - with a small population - getting behind is one thing and one thing only ------------- death.