I think the motivation behind the list is to point out how this subject seems to be in heavy rotation in the media. EVERY city and EVERY country in the world wants thriving and powerful economic development, and now they all have the means to disrupt with their own tech sector. This is going to be rinsed and repeated all over the world for the next 50 years, nanotech here, space travel there, machine learning, robotics, medicine, you name it.

Now it's not like we all weren't competing before, but now it seems the playing field is getting more and more level. Which can mean nothing but good for the average person. Right?