We're in Serious Trouble

A few weeks ago, I went to San Fransisco for business. The event was called the Intel Developers' Forum. It's basically a week long infomercial that Intel makes all of its partners go to and drink the Intel-as-a-religion Koolaid.
This is the first one of these that I've been to. What struck me the most about it was the Chinese. There were a lot of Chinese. Granted, it's in SF and there's a large Chinese-American population. That's not of whom I'm speaking. I mean Chinese-from-China. There were a lot of them and they're very serious. They had two UN-style translator booths that rented headphones. The curse of WI-FI meant that they all transcribed all of the presentations into their laptops and IM'd it back to their companies all over the world.
The main theme of the week was how Intel is expanding its market into Asia. They are bringing their best technology to China, India and Pakistan. Also not good for us.
Everyone's been screaming lately about jobs going overseas. Until recently, these jobs were blue collar, so nobody that made decisions really cared. That's not the case now. It moved to programmers, which was still pretty limited. You didn't need to speak the language very well, so long as you could bang out C++ code for pennies on what an American coder would charge.

Here's the key:

Up until now, communication still limited the amount of work these guys could do without actually coming to America. Not anymore. Now they can write code, do AutoCad mechanical designs, circuit board layout, active simulation of the circuits, and debug the design. All the while, they can pass their work back and forth to the American company via email. They can easily have a teleconference between Atlanta and Bangladesh. Since manufacturing is already there, they can prototype the design, then send the finished product to America. Not only are they linked with the US, they are linking a network infrastructure throughout their own countries. It has always been the lack of this level of communication and connectivity that has hamstrung them in the past and provided us with the advantage. That time is gone.
That brings me to the other part of this.
Chinese, Indian and Pakistani schools don't give a shit about affimative action, sex education, political correctness, or whether the local LGBT alliance is properly represented. They are teaching their kids science, mathematics, english and business. They are training their children to run the world, while we train ours to be sensitive to everone's feelings. They think we coddle blacks and latinos and bring education to the lowest common denominator, which is pretty fucking low. We worry and worry about the poor, fucking poor, and the minorities. Asians are very competitive and are interested in results, including the poor ones.
Make no mistake; these countries, China in particular, have a very specific plan for running the world. Not in a Ming the Merciless way, but in the way that America currently runs the world. The Chinese are nortorious for having very long term plans. Decades long. I am certain that they are in the middle, and getting towards the end, of a plan that resuts in them being the dominant economic power, quickly being followed by them being the dominant political, and then military power.
I see nothing that would lead me to believe that they will not succeed in this. It's coming.

Detroit News, Tuesday, January 18, 2005: Forty-seven percent of Detroit’s adult population is functionally illiterate.

New York Daily News, May 10, 2005: A stunning 81% of the city's eighth-graders flunked the state's basic social studies exam last year - and the scores have gone down annually since the test debuted in 2001.