@_successakanbi As in ehn. Similarly, I couldn't find a lab/computational set-up to do the experiments I needed - basically had to transfer intellectual property for access to facilities.
In a new major report, the World Bank conceded that its decades-long war on industrial policy was wrong, saying its old advice โhas not aged well โ it has the practical value of a floppy disk today.โ
But this is not an intellectual awakening.
The World Bank's doctrine shifted because the means through which Western nations can maintain their dominance shifted โ not because economists suddenly discovered new evidence.
The worldโs wealthiest nations are now pursuing industrial policy so openly that it can no longer be denied to the rest of the world.
When the geopolitical winds shift, so does the ideology of institutions where wealthy nations' interests are deeply entrenched.
@PriinceAdeniyii This is what we're trying to do at The Guardians' Keeper @theeguardiansK. We started with the police, but the aspiration is to extend kindness to all uniformed personnel serving the country. Even protectors need help ๐
Yes!
The skeletal frame for what we call 'tech' (software, AI etc) is literal electrons coursing through copper wires, aka electricity, different minerals, concrete and plastic. To ignore the skeleton hoping the body stands, is to.hope in vain
And part of changing a culture is knowing who your builders actually are.
Cultures donโt just drift. They reward what they recognise. Right now we celebrate people who capture attention, optimise interfaces, and scale platforms. We rarely name, fund, or elevate the people working on metallurgy, materials, energy, and processing, even though those are the systems that keep societies alive. So we do have those names but we need to lift them onto our shoulders
The modern industrialists exist. Theyโre just invisible in a culture that confuses financial success with civilisational value. Until we can point to them, talk about them, and treat them as central rather than peripheral, nothing structural changes until we have got a Rand narrative embedded in our culture .
You fix it by changing who the culture notices and who capital backs.
Very interesting read.
It's slightly funny to see policy folks get on board the fundamental truth you'd learn in physics 101, that for most intents and purposes, it is a material world.
@docneto Yes! This world, is for most intents and purposes, a material world. Economic models/policies that don't situate within the material, miss the mark.