Over excitement of this sort always ends in tears...
The FT sent that out in the past hour or so.
How will they report the downside?
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The success of Microsoft and Meta is built on the Cloud but China produces 60% of the rare earth metals essential for the server farms and processes 90% of them*. Even if the current tech bubble can be maintained it is difficult to see how they can keep their lead in the face of such logistical limitations.
Greenland has large reserves of rare earth metals buried under the rapidly melting ice.
* https://thenewglobalorder.com/world-news/resource-dependency-exploring-the-chinese-monopoly-of-critical-minerals/
Ah, so now I understand why Trump wants to “buy” Greenland
Like this?
https://www.ft.com/content/e812c32c-506e-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc
(No paywall – old article)
sorry – there was a paywall – despite being an ‘old’ article
Try this
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aft.com+yahoo+bubble+dot+com&t=fpas&ia=web
and scroll down (more results) to the entry
“Yahoo: a history of the internet in 5 acts”
That gives me the article, whereas the direct link produces the paywall.
Sorry, I should have checked that the direct link worked.
Hi Richard,
Is there an actual comments box, not linked to a post?
You said you would find the ‘missing’ 200,000 children in the UK for me who are not in school and whos prospects are not bright.
Besides ‘top down’ there are ‘bottom up’ ways of making a difference.
It might need a new blog with posters ordinary people can connect with.
The Quiet Anarchist. Re-building the UK a cell at a time.
Cheers. Andrew.
This?
https://epi.org.uk/publications-and-research/children-missing-from-education/