One of the best things in Duke is we are exposed to chance to hear the world's best lectures throughout the year. This monday I heard Thomas Friedman's lecture on his latest book "Hot, Flood, and Crowded". His main argument was energy techonology revolution is only the way American economy revives. His speech was filled with a sense of cricis on climate change.
What I felt most interesting was, he wisely linked fall of American economy and market chance in green technology. He told the green technology would be(must be, otherwise we might extinct) the biggest revolution human ever experienced, and it would be the last chance for America to get rise again in international economy. He also mentioned about collapse of US political system. It can be taken either as a suggestion for a wide shift to strong state level autonomy, or as a reform of D.C.
As he says, strength of America must be the fronteer spirit and social engine for innovation.
What I feel here in America is though, week hope for future compared to those of newly emerged countries. And social system which sustains US competitivity is collapsing. Of course US economy is still biggest producer and consumer in the world, and people are active than Japanese (inherently). However in personal level, I don't meet so many people who have positive future vision except entreprenuer-type of people. Nevertheless students here should be future leader of society and economy?!?!
After financial system had huge damage, can this country draw new big picture?
Now I'm interested in what is the success factors of EU governance and economy, compared to that of USA.
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