{"id":102978,"date":"2020-02-27T23:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/eric-schmidt-i-used-to-run-google-silicon-valley-could-lose-to-china"},"modified":"2020-02-27T23:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:03:06","slug":"eric-schmidt-i-used-to-run-google-silicon-valley-could-lose-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/eric-schmidt-i-used-to-run-google-silicon-valley-could-lose-to-china","title":{"rendered":"Eric Schmidt: I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eric-schmidt-i-used-to-run-google-silicon-valley-could-lose-to-china2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in recent years, Americans \u2014 Silicon Valley leaders included \u2014 have put too much faith in the private sector to ensure U.S. global leadership in new technology. Now we are in a technology competition with China that has profound ramifications for our economy and defense \u2014 a reality I have come to appreciate as chairman of two government panels on innovation and national security. The government needs to get back in the game in a serious way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We can\u2019t win the technology wars without the federal government\u2019s help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in recent years, Americans \u2014 Silicon Valley leaders included \u2014 have put too much faith in the private sector to ensure U.S. global leadership in new technology. Now we are in a technology competition with China that has profound ramifications for our economy and defense \u2014 a reality I have come to appreciate as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}