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        <title><![CDATA[They steal our technology]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chinese stealing technology located manufacturing plants in China!Damn.http://dulichtructuyen.net/du-lich-singapore/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dulich]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:55:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think china factory will become more competitive]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The reasoen why I think so is that, compare other country, china is very large and big, and give its plant economic scale , the person in china is more worker hard, usually 50 hours per week or more. They spent more time in studing and wroking, it is the culture of east asia. For example, www.sangongvalve.com  this company increasing it's businese quickly. Nowdays, chinese are in a trend to have hugh enthuastic creat wealth.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lindanlin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:34:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wadhwa is a legacy software updating expert - not a manufacturing economist]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-11203-77053]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Because we aren't experts in specific technical fields, if technical fields at all, we often seek advice from &quot;experts&quot; that often have little relative experience on the subject/problem at hand. Thus articles like this one.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dduggerbiocepts]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:34:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[DIY - not an economy expander.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I love DIY and come from a long line of people with high mechanical aptitudes. However, I make a living as scientist/problem solver. Most problems can be reduced to economics and late in life I now wished I had taken more economics courses in my education. DIY only saves expenses and it assumes that you already have a satisfactory base income that supports DIY project materials. While DIY may up sales at HD and Lowes it doesn't really do anything for the general economy - after all you're only replacing another product/service and substituting some of your spare time to augment your income. Essentially DIY is another form of a second job and an indication that the economy can't support you with one job.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dduggerbiocepts]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:38:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Critical thinking skills in use - danger, danger, danger!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Next to biofuels and cold fusion - 3-D printing has been one of the most over-hyped, under performing technologies for the last decade. It has small specific applications especially in tool and die making part of manufacturing, but even there it has to compete with 3-D milling CAD programs that are often more cost effective especially in non-polymeric materials. People don't seem to understand that the 3-D printing techniques are severely limited by material purity, energy and costs - polymer printers are the most economically efficient which as you note are a petroleum derivative. Any product that requires multi-materials and or high heat formed materials - ceramics, glass, metals, become increasingly complex, problematic and expensive to &quot;print&quot; dramatically limiting their range of economic application. It isn't technical feasibility that limits 3-D printings broader application - it's basic economics. Printing material costs alone will continue to prevent 3-D printing from being economically feasible for most applications.AI is such a generic term. Computers are already AI by definition. We are one of, if not the leading developer of software in general - the basis for AI and it hasn't saved our economy from China, who has actually economically leveraged it against us with debt. Your comments on the lack of economic balance - costs/disposable income with robotic production strikes at the root of our current economic problems. The corporate owned US gov. has either replaced workers with robots, or just out-sourced labor to cheaper economies and the only way those jobs are ever going to come back is when the economic balance - wage competition is a level playing field. The level of economic ignorance in the US avg. citizen is only exceeded by their scientific ignorance - the root problem of our all national decline.Creativity has never been in short supply in the US. What has been is not only the ability to protect intellectual property internationally, but functional economic processes for effectively connecting creativity with responsible capital investment. Currently capital flow to creativity - start-ups in the US is at an all time low primarily because of the expense and economics of &quot;professionally&quot; managed capital. Capital management firms require large numbers to justify their overhead and fees - which inherently mean small start-up projects are avoided. It's going to take more than 3-D printing and artificial intelligence to get around this economic paradigm.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dduggerbiocepts]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:12:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That has never been true...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...from the day someone invented the spade plow.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:05:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Too many people]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[New tech that displaces workers will only work if world population declines, and tech advanced countries tend to have low birthrates.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[WisDad]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:38:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[missed something?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which leaves us with the big question, who is going to afford the products? Not the cheap labor force that is for sure.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiljoy616]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:03:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If only]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No real jobs coming home. The article to me paints a abysmal future for a lot of the population not a better one. Nothing new this seems to be the norm not the exception. Even our military uses so many foreign parts reminds me of the Romans outsourcing their military toward the end. Not saying we are the Roman Empire at the end of its life just saying we as a society love to hear fantasies about how its all going to be better in the future and just watch our kids will have it better when all indications show its going to be a minority enjoying the fruits of the many.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiljoy616]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:58:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[raw materials from the USA]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This years drought will make it so China can't buy up all of our corn.  What about wood, and all the other products that leave the USA for the Chinese to make there cheap products.  these raw materials should be taxed high enough to spark a fair trade with manufacturing.  When corn reaches $90.00 a barrel full i'll  be happy.  Oil is pumped out of the ground, corn takes months, good weather, vast costs in fuel, etc equipment labor etc, fair is fair.  equal the prices of our products with China, no more Mr. Nice guy.  The new war is the balance of money.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jpwalkerjr]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:12:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[China's high price of energy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[hike of energy price  also reduces the profit of manufacturing in China.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[1509144093]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:19:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[American MFG resurgence?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'd like to see it, with the quality and craftsmanship that went with it in the past. Just be sure it puts people back to work so they can buy the items.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Arctic Char]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:57:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You Got it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yours is the only response that shows that someone understands the article and the implications.  I am also involved in DIY and it combines personal creativity with enteprenual thinking.There is one thing that Chinese manufacturing can do and that is to put a small army of workers together almost overnight to scale up production of almost anything.  This everything from the production line workers to the equipment on the production line.  They have highly skilled engineers who can take an idea and turn it into a product at a low cost.  The down side to this is that quality is not a prime consideration unless it is specified.  The US used to be known for &quot;Yankee ingenuity&quot; and it is sad that the statement is past tense.  The DIY movement is a way to free up that old yankee ingenuity and build new things from the ground up.  If you want a robot, you can build one for yourself.  You want a 3 D printer, you can also build one for yourself.  The great thing about the DIY movement is that it is more cooperative and shares ideas that benefit a wider group than thetypical corporate way.  If there was a way for a group of DIY types to get together and do rapid prototyping into rapid production with good quality then it will bring inexpensive products with good quality back.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sboverie]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:24:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lost Jobs &amp; Romney]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An article recentlt published in Barrons or Business Week cited that manufacturing jobs today require one worker when in the past, I believe, four workers were required, which is why the share today of GDP for manufacturing is the same or slightly greater than in the past, but the job numbers are much lower. Ths sad term for this is productivity. As to the quip about Romney..I am not concerned about the past (albeit the steel mill that DID grow, was in the US, Remember who was appointed to , I believe, the SEC, or similar, when it was first established..Joseph Kennedy..Why? He knew where the skeletons were buried.. I believe (my mind is slowly going as I get older..the job description for President is slightly different from eguity investor..but in the end, if congress doesn't change, will the preidency even matter?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DMZ_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Smarter world.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think this is great and I believe that not only is this possible but the groundwork has begun.  There will always be jobs, just different jobs.  Maintenance of the robots, material acquisition, etc.    As far as patent infringement goes, it's only if you are selling someone else' work that this applies.  If you make it for yourself than there is no problem.  I agree that not everybody will be able to create, but the tech is here on a small scale and will be on a much more evolved scale in the near future. There is a web site called &quot;Instructables&quot;, it is amazing in it's variety of DIY(do it yourself projects).  All the direction is there, what tools and material to use, etc.  People by and large are creative and I think that there will be ground-breaking discoveries made in the near future, from people who did not pay a fortune to go to university.  Society will decide the direction it wants to go.  Free the mind and anything is possible.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger McKay]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:29:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[robot source]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Japan]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AtlantaTerry]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:14:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[then why illustrate the article with a 24 year old photograph?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hold your mouse over the US Navy photo of a jet fighter being assembled and you will see that it is Copyright 1988!Yeah, that certainly illustrates how US companies are using the latest technology to drive down costs and raise productivity.Terry Thomas...the photographerAtlanta, Georgia USA]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AtlantaTerry]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:13:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[US Job Recapture]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just read a bunch of the commentary here and many people have said that Chinese products are crap. Wow, what a fat headed silly statement. A person has to be quite blind to not notice you tend to get what you pay for. Americans manufacture junk too. Black and Decker is an example of that. They make high end reasonably reliable products and others that really are rubbish, all depending on how deep your pockets are. I see similar good/bad products come out of Mexico and other countries. Back to China, I have tools made in China that work well and have had others that were disapointing. What is most disapopinting for me as a Canadian is to see large American corporations buy up companies like Inglis and move them across the line, losing jobs in my country. Then they close down that company and reduce the competition between brands. Any Americans ever notice that? As American purchasers of products made in your country do you not recognize that lack of competition makes for reduced quality and lack of choices.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[radiodog4@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:10:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sounds nice, but...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If everything is going to be robotic, then bringing the work back to the US won't provide many jobs. I just don't get how supposedly 'smart' people who make these decisions don't see that outsourcing everything will come back to bite you. Have some foresight!! No jobs, no money, no consumers, no economy. DOH!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mail@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:00:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hardy, har, har]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title should be:&quot;3 reasons it would be nice for US to capturemanufacturing from China&quot;Where do we get the robots?  From China?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bill1514@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:37:01 -0700</pubDate>
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