Lisa Ritchie, vice president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Arizona and AACAA Arizona, on behalf of these two organizations along with AZ Chinese News, is conducting a series of interviews highlighting the inside stories of successful and influential people. The first interviewee of the series is Professor Douglas Guthrie at Thunderbird School of Global Management.
China landed a spacecraft on the Moon this weekend for the fourth time, successfully placing its Chang’e 6 lander in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon.
After the landing on Saturday evening (United States time), the autonomous spacecraft will spend about 48 hours collecting samples. It will do so by two different means, drilling to collect material from beneath the ground, as well as using a robotic arm to gather regolith from the surface.
Acer founder Stan Shih gave a special lecture to the first cohort of tech entrepreneurs aspiring to go global. The two-day course in Taipei is co-hosted by Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management and Soochow University.
The fear of becoming obsolete is a natural part of the human experience. We worry that as we age, we may lose our edge, becoming out of touch, out of shape, and unnecessary, relegated to the back of the line or even out the door.
In some ways, it’s the ideal real estate investment. Prices are relatively low. Zoning laws are virtually nonexistent. And the views are pretty much whatever you want to make them.
But, of course, there’s one small catch: The land doesn’t actually exist.
Over the last century, the realm of space exploration has shifted from something that was available almost exclusively to the elite of society – governments, militaries, engineers, astronauts – to something that may soon become fair game for everyone, via existing ventures like commercial tourism, and even a pathway for human beings to become an interplanetary species, pending future developments.
