JR>> a lot of the smarts stayed centered in first world firms in the US and elsewhere.
>>Did they?
>>-I don't know anyone who says that US cars are better than Japanese cars- or the Koreans now. The Genesis is an awesome car.
>>-When is the last time you saw a camera made with a US brand? (RIP Eastman Kodak)
>>-Do you really think that there is a single US citizen who has a clue about what's inside a TV set?
>>-What US citizen designed my Samsung Galaxy?
>>We lead in software, but except for Apple and aircraft carriers, we've ceded design to people who want to do such things.

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JR>>The other quiet effect just being felt, is that while a lot of raw manufacturing moved to China, a lot of the smarts stayed centered in first world firms in the US and elsewhere. If robotics is going to be led locally, the shoe now is on the other foot.

I was talking about mnufacturing moved to China while the smarts stayed in the home nation- which would be the case for all the examples you quote. Point was that as robotics advances, any brand of car and smaller and smaller items now are more efficiently assembled locally, especially in nations with a robotic advantage.