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"Silicon Valley’s best brains are now engaged in minutely tweaking algorithms to capture the attention span of customers, and are not thinking of solving the world’s problems". This is so true. English-fettered India lacks clear insight to draw such bold and objective conclusions.

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thanks! although people like Google X have had a shot at the really big problems like clean energy and internet access by balloon, the real action is in getting more eyeballs and more advertising $$

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Mind-boggling. China can not be quitened in the near future, that's for sure. What the West had

been enjoying as monopolies, it is slowly ( one ca n only hope that it 's not surely ) losing to China.

Technology, economy, military - these are fields where it has gained superiority enough to suggest

the West. Education, it wants to improve now, you say. I commented once in the Swarajya that

the first step should be to oust China from UN Sec. Council. Craving for supremacy spares nobody

be that it may be the West or the Buddhists. Mohammedans don't need any introduction. A day may come when those who had taken debts connive against C, Muslim nations too may do the same. When Russia gets annoyed with C's plans of claiming its borders with R, all these factors

may prove to be costly to China. Let us wait and watch.

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there are good chances that china will implode, or go to war. we'll have to deal with that too.

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