Re: the English language part 2

[Emanuel Berg]

Ralph Seichter wrote:

> Given the sheer number of native Mandarin
> speakers and China's efforts in computer
> science (just consider their supercomputing
> centres), I consider it arrogant to use whe
> word "never" in your prediction.

The only way that is a possibility is if NATO
and Russia nuke each other clean of the Earth.

Sheer numbers and state efforts can perhaps
produce a bunch of supercomputing centers, but
not the rate and quality of innovation that was
first the industrial revolution, then a lot of
other things, and since at least the 50s the
IT industry which to a great extent is
unthinkable without the US.

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