I’m writing a series in response to AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee. In this post, I want to respond to his section about the role of copying in China’s tech development.

Technology takes what it means to be human and blows it up, shrinks it, speeds it up, slows it down, smears it, clarifies it, obscures it – anything, in fact, except for improve or degrade human nature itself.