Chapter Two : The Ten Forces That Flattened the World
part of the competition?
"the fortune hunters wielded geological-modeling software and database mining tools rather than picks and shovels. The big winners were from Australia. And they had never even seen the mine."
So for the miners in the Goldcorp Challenge, it was a matter of who's engineering was better, and who had the best equipment. Manpower didn't play a role in who discovered where the next 6 million ounces of gold lay hidden, like it once had. The way software and engineering plays a role in society today, it does seem like kind of a competition to make the 'best'. But now that America is outsourcing to places like China to have it's goods made, how can it be part of the competition? How can they even claim that 'American' engineering is even American anymore? Yes, America can still create ideas on it's own, but everything is becoming intertwined. Does this make any sense?
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