They are the US’ 2nd biggest trading partner, with China at #1. Almost any US vs China strategy involves or includes Canada

Came here to post the same thing. I believe what I read is they would be most useful for utility power and not so much for small-scale such as electric vehicles etc.

I read an article recently about the specialized AI used to model the 3d protein folding for 200 million known/mapped proteins. The project was part of a team overlapping w/ Google Alpha and these folding models are available to anyone with a need for no royalties and basically no fee. When I was in my 20s/30s I recall donating computer time on my PCs to citizen science research efforts attempting this for just a *few* proteins. There are positives and negatives to many technologies - the positives hold up and take us to the future, while we fight against the negatives and keep them from swamping us.

Biometrics for identifying and tracking us through all media - facial recognition, voice recognition, gait tracking technologies. Combined with plate readers on police cars and in neighborhoods and traffic cameras. All of that without even any phone data.