The New World of Offshoring and Automation --McIlroy

The only sustainable advantage is using superior technology to outperform their North American competitors. This notion is anathema to Americans, who have assumed—mostly correctly—that North America enjoys a substantial technological edge on developing countries.

But they fail to realize a new law of technology: provided the technology is affordable, developing nations will adopt it even more quickly than the first world, because these technologies represent their only hope to achieve some kind of parity with the developed world.