{"id":640267,"date":"2010-01-06T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.openthefuture.com,2010:\/\/1.9199"},"modified":"2010-01-31T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T22:09:03","slug":"new-fast-company-innovation-as-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640267","title":{"rendered":"New Fast Company: Innovation as Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to blogging at <em>Fast Company<\/em>, and my latest piece is now up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/blog\/jamais-cascio\/open-future\/innovation-resource\">Innovation as Resource and China&#8217;s New Magnetism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.K.&#8217;s <em>Independent<\/em> reports that China has been gradually cutting the amount of rare-earth elements it exports, now down 40% from seven years ago. China now exports only 25% of the rare-earth elements it mines. [&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>So what are our options? We (as in, the non-China parts of the industrialized world) could try to pressure China to sell more, but that&#8217;s unlikely to work&#8211;and China tends not to respond well to even mild criticism. We could try to rapidly reopen the now-closed rare-earth element mines, but mining is, frankly, an environmental nightmare and incredibly dangerous&#8211;hardly a sustainable practice.<\/p>\n<p>Our best option is to innovate our way out of the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>China, and to a lesser (but increasing) extent India, can be seen as &#8220;leapfrog superpowers&#8221; &#8212; undergoing a rapid shift in global status, a shift which remains incomplete. China has more influence and importance on the global stage than it is willing to admit (preferring to call itself a developing nation), but not nearly the <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/more_on_those_crazy_44.php\">power that some fear<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The question is, does the immense potential power of China (and India) make a leapfrog transition easier or harder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to blogging at Fast Company, and my latest piece is now up: Innovation as Resource and China&#8217;s New Magnetism. The U.K.&#8217;s Independent reports that China has been gradually cutting the amount of rare-earth elements it exports, now down 40% from seven years ago. China now exports only 25% of the rare-earth elements it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GyT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}