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First Paper Second Draft - Is digital autonomy a requirement for effective regulation and protection

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 I think the weak EU tech and digital markets do not call for even more regulation but need strong political action at the Member States' level to foster public interest in tech. Such action would inevitably start by teaching tech to the young generations at schools and by strengthening universities tech programs across the continent. While in the US, the Silicon Salley brings a sentiment of empowerment and future success, the same feeling does not seem to prevail in the old continent where computer science is often despised in comparison to classic old studies, lawyers, doctors, civil engineers… Hermann Hauser, founder of several tech companies well summarized this sad reality by saying: “_If you’re a young chap in Europe, and you work for Siemens, and you have a great job, with credibility, and profile, and you have your pension, and your life ahead of you – and then you give it up to take a job at some futuristic start-up, your girl-friend would give you up. But in Silicon Valley, your girlfriend would leave you if you didn’t leave Siemens to join a start-up_.”

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Much credit is due for the willingness to rethink. This is really the first draft of that rethought essay.

This draft is not well-structured. It runs out without a conclusion because there isn't one yet: you are clearing the ground for new construction. Noticeably—aside from a glancing reference to one device maker, Huawei—thinking beyond Europe means only the US. China and India are also relevant to the subjects under discussion. Europe's only significant interest in the quadrupling of the African population this century is to strengthen measures to keep Africans out of Europe. Both the US and Chinese platforms have a different orientation to that phenomenon; as usual in the geopolitics of the Net, India holds the balance of whether another idea beyond the polarities of surveillance capitalism and perfected despotism can be developed. One part of the new construction is to enlarge the floor plan.

The sociology you imply rather than conducting, concerning the attitudes of educated young people and their relation to the job market should again be taken in global context. At the societal level, we can describe attitudes to software much as we can discuss the social distribution of ideas about factory industrialization from, say, 1750-1850. Young Europeans and US Americans (in Atlanta, Boston, or New York as well as California) are only some of the people you might want to think about.

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