“[Science fiction] had been disapproved of for a long time. At one point I took a top official aside and asked him what had changed? ‘It’s simple,’ he told me. ‘The Chinese were brilliant at making things if other people brought them the plans. But they did not innovate and they did not invent. They did not imagine. So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google, and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves.’” They found a common link: all had read science fiction when they were young, and Star Wars had inspired many.
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