By training every child to be programmers.
The key reason the Mongols were so successful is their use of technology – super horses, and training mongols to shoot arrows from a moving horse and superior tactics that built the largest land empire the world has ever seen.
The key reason that Britain built the British empire was the superiority of the British navy.
Whether a country wants to build an empire, become a world leader, or defense against being someone else’s empire, it is important to embrace the technology of the time.
The technology of our time and of the future is the internet, code and artificial intelligence. I am sure that if any country wanted to become the dominant world power, they would just need to teach every child how to program and code.
It would give the citizens the ability to communicate with, and create, machines and technology. It would supercharge the economy by building the strongest tech center in the world. Even if they didn’t go into this area they would still have huge advantages of learning how to code which is a way of thinking.
And it’s not that hard. It’s relatively simple and easy to learn how to code. Children have so much time in formal education and they should be learning the most important skills for their future.
