Nationalism is not merely having having a moment as an "American shtick", though I don't know much about how widespread it is in non-Western developing countries. Certainly might not be so much, there.
The real possibility exists that it would be better to be an independent 'second place' technology center (or third place, etc) than a pure-consumer of someone else's integrate tech stack.
China decided that a long time ago for the consumer web. Europe is considering similar things more than ever before. The US is considering it with TikTok.
It's not hard to see that expanding. It's hard to claim that forcing local development of tech was a failure for China.
Short of a breakthrough that means the everyday person no longer has to work, why would I rather have a "better" but wholly-foreign-country-owned, not-contributing-anything-to-the-economy-I-participate-in-daily LLM or image generator or what-have-you vs a locally-sourced "good enough" one?
The real possibility exists that it would be better to be an independent 'second place' technology center (or third place, etc) than a pure-consumer of someone else's integrate tech stack.
China decided that a long time ago for the consumer web. Europe is considering similar things more than ever before. The US is considering it with TikTok.
It's not hard to see that expanding. It's hard to claim that forcing local development of tech was a failure for China.
Short of a breakthrough that means the everyday person no longer has to work, why would I rather have a "better" but wholly-foreign-country-owned, not-contributing-anything-to-the-economy-I-participate-in-daily LLM or image generator or what-have-you vs a locally-sourced "good enough" one?