What We are Reading, Watching, and Listening To....(February 7th)

Watching:

• Belt and Road 5 Years Later on Bloomberg.com.

Reading:

• Trump Preparing Plan to Boost AI, 5G Technology at wsj.com. We are at the dawn of a new US industrial policy to counter China’s 2025 plan.

• The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato. An always interesting and occassionally radical call to reassess government’s role in spurring innovation and growth.

• Federal R&D Dashboard from AAAS.org. NIH is big but DoD is bigger.

• Most Smart Things aren’t that Smart from Forbes.c

• om. Kind of like saying, “Machine learning will take care of that problem.” “Smart” doesn’t mean that much.

• Europe starts 2019 with a Whimper in WSJ.com. Coordinated global growth doesn’t look like a 2019 story.

• 5G Race with China in NYTimes.com. Hauwei is in the sightes of the US and Allies.

• Bracing for the Year of the Pig in NYTimes.com. Things have permanently changed in the US/China relationship.

Listening:

• Is innovation getting harder on Econtalk. Russ Roberts interview Stripe founder Patrick Collison about how R&D is getting harder and more expensive. This is worth a listen.

• Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends in 2019 from A16Z podcast. What VCs care about at CES.