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These days the Japanese are our friends. Partners in economic misery. Moore's Law continues to rage, but somehow our economies are stuck. I think I know why, it's because intellectually we have gotten lazy. We look to big corporations for new ideas, and big corporations are not the hatchery of new ideas, in fact they annihilate them. Not their fault. By their nature, they have to hire average people who don't take risks. They are scared of people who do. So as the companies get larger, eventually the flow of new ideas is choked and our economies fall. The resurrection is always in our intellect. We have the power to rebuild. We just have to choose to.