[PROJECT SYNDICATE, DEC 12, 2022] THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR TECH MASTERY - BY ERIC [NOTE: Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer who was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, executive chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015,[ executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and Technical Advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020]
