Shift

For the past year seems business media has been all about how the most exciting things are happening in China and the United Arab Emirates, not just business but architecture and art and food and every other high-energy entrepreneurial endeavor, and it’s become really obvious the past six months how, if you really want to make something big, something new, something exciting, you need to go to Beijing or Dubai. That’s where it’s all happening – the tallest buildings, the fastest growth, the least bureaucracy; that’s where you’ll find the most fertile ground for truly extraordinary vision. Which is really neat, because that’s what everyone used to think about the United States. Twenty years from now, we’ll be urging our kids to go to go to the other side of the world because that’s where stuff is really happening. Sure you could go to New York or LA and do fine, but if you want to be a real player, you gotta go East, young man. It would be a subtle yet broad and fundamental mind-shift that’s completely new to the American psyche, and I can’t think of a nation more deserving of it.