The EIPC Winter Conference in February was revealing for several reasons, not the least of which was that the view among the 125 primarily European electronics engineers and executives in attendance was their industry and governments had failed them by not acting more swiftly and vigorously to staunch the offshoring tide.

Analysis of artificial intelligence’s place in the world is as ubiquitous (and occasionally, insufferable) as those chatbots cluttering up many businesses’ websites. Not unironically, then, am I adding to the din.