On the other hand, to buy a car in a Chinese city you have to join the government waiting list and wait to be approved.
You'll also have the car's movements tracked in detail, etc.
If China's the 21st century, they can keep it.
You'll also have the car's movements tracked in detail, etc.
If China's the 21st century, they can keep it.
With today's AI models, it'd be feasible to analyze massive amounts of video/audio data gathered by the microphones and cameras all around us - as long as you have enough GPU data centers.
In fact if you believe democracy is the superior system of government, it's arguably even more embarrassing that an authoritarian single party state run by billionaire communists is somehow doing a better job as a technologically advanced civilization that a lot of democracies.
Ultimately it doesn't really matter though. The future will at least temporarily belong to those who get there first, regardless of their system of government or other issues. If other countries don't want China to own the 21st century, they should act like it.