Is There a Middle Path?

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There's really two paths. There is ultimate centralization, the china path, or there is sore,. The ultimate let a thousand flowers bloom, even though later it will be rotten path. And if you reject the second, the only realistic outcome, given the nature of technology, is the first. This is the point we've made again and again about the trade offs that are inherent in so many of these debates.

Ben and James contrast U.S. and China’s response to the coronavirus, and the choices facing society about how to handle information.

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