Letter

In response to How Trump’s vision of a single-minded China containment has failed

Innovation and vision

While the US war machine yet again loses more wars from afar, its tech industries continue to conquer the world, surreptitiously invade particularly the English-speaking world with their internet, movies, fads, maps and language etc.

The tech industries’ prime concern is that each advancement is built on those that went before and dare I say that there is another country that has been very good at that and continues to take the lead. This is one area where, for a relatively low cost (hackers do it all the time) with constant innovation, even the smallest of countries/people can be world leaders.

It has been a very big mistake to have outsourced all our technology innovation. In many ways, small government-sponsored innovation is better. Australia has proven in the past it is capable of innovation.

It is a very big mistake to lock ourselves into one brand of technology when another may well be the building block upon which the next leap forward is built.

— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA