ROBOTS

The Chinese outnumber us 4 to 1 in people and the entire world in robots. Why would we expect always to remain the largest economy and the most powerful nation on earth?

And that’s okay — not every nation can be forever #1. In terms of happiness, we’re not even in the Top 20 .

As I’ve argued before, the American Century began in 1917 when we entered World War I and ended exactly on time 100 years later when the current president was sworn in.

I think you’ll find this New York Times “The Daily” ear-popping:

How China Made Itself Tariff-Proof (32 minutes).

(If you’re not a Times subscriber, here’s the executive summary: they are way ahead of everybody — even the Germans and Japanese — in “dark” factories that need no humans . . . and in using robots to manufacture more robots to widen that lead further . . . and in part it’s their response to the one-child policy that has left them with tens of millions of highly educated young people who refuse to do factory jobs. How ironic is that?…