I want to avoid the pitfalls of what Marx described as late-stage capitalism—a theoretical time when economic growth and profits collapse—and get back to the returns enjoyed in early stage capitalism. But how? That’s the question most heads of state around the world are also grappling with. In computer science and engineering, we search for something called the global maxima. It’s a mathematical phrase describing the optimal state—the highest point of a function. Where technology is concerned, I would argue that the global maxima for every region of the world—a country, county, or
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