![]() The Chinese have been straightforwardly copying everything that has worked in the developed world: 19th-century railroads, 20th-century air conditioning, and even entire cities. China is the paradigmatic example of globalization its 20-year plan is to become like the United States is today. At the macro level, the single word for horizontal progress is globalization-taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere.If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things-going from 0 to 1. ![]() Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work-going from 1 to n. When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. ![]() The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. ![]()
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