Tesla the badass that he was.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2787017788072677040


Watch the first 10 minutes of the movie...

If we new this, if the world new about this and many of his other inventions we would demand better.

He even levitated non-magnetic materials...

The man was a technical and scientific god and depending who you talk too, was killed or died early because of his work.

As for high frequency eletricity being used to promote healthly regrowth of tissue.

My bone regenerator that was used on my foot and saved my ability to walk, did EXACTLY this..

I suggest you read into him.

considerations

Some great suggestions within this book. If we can get an executive officer to admit that some of this vacuum is true, then maybe we have a chance to protect everything that we have built over the last three hundred or so years in this nation. What makes it so scary, and that it can change like this seemingly overnight, and is worsening daily, is because of the smaller world concept of globalization, the immensity of the momentum of the capitalist China, and the rapid multiplier of vast technological advances. All this, plus the blindness of economists and shareholders, suggests we are doomed. Only enlightenment can save us. Or can it?

Chapter XI Politics

The stark reality is probably just as the author proposes. No time soon will an American political regime tackle the highly controversial issues within this book. The most activity this book is likely to stir in Washington D.C. is nothing but some well-choreographed Potomac Two-Step. I agree with the author that I certainly hope that his expectations are overly pessimistic, yet as likely as these events are to coming to partial fruition, there is no chance of proactive measures (too late) and little chance of reaction short of a major devaluation of the dollar, likely from the swift withdrawal of foreign capital investment. Oh Good Gosh, as much investment as China has in our federal Treasuries, we better get somebody that is as adept at Asian and Chinese diplomacy as they are keen about the depth of these possible repercussions.

Chapter X Competing

I really like the recommendations that the author makes to compete in this awkward globalization landscape. "The barn door is open and the horses are already scattered all over creation." Nonetheless, although perhaps nearly utopian, a pro-American business government focus would enable us to re-integrate our manufacturing abilities. Create tax incentives. Start with government subsidy through a national healthcare program. This would lower labor costs. Tell the union to quit creating an environment that encourages offshoring our industries. Reign in insurance via tort reform. Establish multi-lateral trade agreements. All valuable ideas that may help stave off the hollowing effect. Focusing whole heartily on new energy programs, especially ramping up development of nuclear energy (France's energy independence is remarkable) would make huge contributions to the America that our children will inherit.

Chapter IX China, India, and Productivity

How disconcerting is the news presented by the author? Horror story after horror story, after horror story. From chips, to customer service, to pianos, and soon cars, we are doomed. China is graduating an astounding 350,000 new engineers every year. Remember early the Seventies and Eighties, oldtimers lamenting that we needed to buy American. Now, it seems like China (and India) against the rest of the world. Italy, wow, in five years has seen zero GDP growth, its vital tile and stone and furniture industries decimated by Chinese competition. Over the weekend I commented "Let's not buy anything else made in China." "But the Wii is made in China!" Wow, surenuff(sic), and so it was. I bought two new clothing items "made by" Polo, Ralph Lauren, on Sunday. One was made in India, the other in China. Maybe it is too late. What do we do now? And with the mind boggling innovation and R & D park in China. These things are troubling. What is worse, is that most of America is brainwashed by the pro-Ricardo economists, and the offshoring is deemed ideal by those who support specialization through globalization. America is indeed in serious trouble.

Chapter VIII 20th Century Innovation

I can keep this one short. But it does come with another wow.
Offshoring our production technology has been my fear. With Dell the babe of the flatlanders, and Schwinn gone the way of Giant, with its innovation. This is serious contention that I hope and pray that our next president will have his or her entire cabinet read.
I love the way someone in the DB discussion just assumed that we were opinionated, and that it was not possible to get an objective view of this book. I guess that is because the objective view is opinionated.

Chapter VII The Free Market

Wow. Okay, so this book has me saying that word quite a bit. Maybe, Ahh, or Voila, or some other contrivance used to denote amazing albeit scary perspective. The author's forensic analysis of "economist" David Ricardo's theories on Comparative Advantage is powerfully revealing. I have been studying economics since the late eighties. I had completely bought into the comparative advantage concept of specialization. Now, I have been convinced that it is based on entirely too many assumptions. And, I figured that NAFTA was definitely the right thing to do for all countries involved, you know, we got stick together with our North American brethren. Hmm, how much has it hurt Mexico to sell our expensive corn? All the country ridiculed Ross Perot to his obstinate opposition to NAFTA, and were all on the band wagon together as we derisively called him a lunatic. "You can't build a barn with one nail." What did that mean? You can't build an economic future with aerospace and military while you outsource everything else. I have had reservations about the effects of buying non-American for sometime, and now I am urgently concerned. I really like the quote from Abraham Lincoln, that shows his simple wisdom was clearly more simple and accurate then his contemporaries could have imagined.
"I don't know much about the tariff. But I do know that when I buy a coat from England, I have the coat and England has the money. But when I buy a coat in America, I have the coat and America has the money."

Finally, the example the author provides in Korea with respect to protectionist tariffs for developing industries drives a point home for me. Unfortunately, it drives the point home for me in a Hyundai Sonata.