i would argue there are fewer qualified academics being created in the U.S., because our educational system is declining and has been for some time, relative to other countries.
risking? it's been happing for years already. both in the "drain" sense, those leaving the US, and with fewer "brains" coming to the US from other places. also, with the decline in US academics, fewer are being created in the US to begin with. altogether, three different factors making a "brain drain".
amazingly, i have spoken to some elderly people, and not all were happier today than as kids. although who's to say how much their current circumstances and memory affect their recollection. and how can there be many MORE species that would have been extinct if not for us humans and our "progress" and technology, which is what drives their extinction in the first place?
what good is it to live in a great techno-wonderland if we've traded much greater gifts to get there? i could say perhaps you are too attached to the idea of progress, the idea that because time passes things must get better?
there are also things that are worse now. half of animal species alive in 1970 are now extinct. we have created new diseases as we've removed the threat of old ones. things like sitting outside and looking at the stars are harder, or listening to birdsong. the family no longer spends much time together. our lives are more virtual and less based in reality, which leads to a lower quality life and less happiness.
If China keeps giving western tech companies a hard time they might stop making their stuff in China. That would hurt the Chinese economy far more than they gain by local companies taking a little business from Apple and such.
well i don't care about appointments from my text editor... i think i should delete this question and re-phrase it more narrowly, unfortunately it seems it's impossible to delete.
not trying to "troll", my question was genuine, though i admit i could have phrased it more narrowly.
personally i prefer not having to learn new keyboard shortcuts to style a todo list for example as that first video discusses. i just write it out, use an asterisk or some easy system to show points, outline levels or whatever. if it's important to get done that day i note that in plain text. this is faster and easier to remember than learning a whole system for todo lists and marking up the different items importance, etc.
i want my email client to be focused on email, and a scheduling or calendar program to be focused just on that. for me bbedit is a swiss army knife of text editors in that it does lots of things to text - grep, search over huge numbers of directories, whatever. but i don't want one environment for things beyond that. for me those do many things badly, instead of one thing well.
those don't convince me, though maybe i'm not reading far enough in to see their significant use point. bbedit does what i need and does it well. i write css/html/javascript for dev work, and it works fine for keeping notes or whatever like that first link mentions.