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A few of the more significant American innovations in the last 15-20 years: -CRISPR, gene editing -iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. -re-usable space rock
by carleverett 10y ago
A few of the more significant American innovations in the last 15-20 years:
-CRISPR, gene editing
-iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc.
-re-usable space rockets (Spacex and Blue Origin)
-IBM's Watson and Deep Blue, Google's AlphaGo
-LIGO's detection of gravitational waves
-MIT's improvements in lithium ion technology
-NASA's exploratory discoveries on Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Saturn, etc.
-Google
-Wikipedia
-Facebook
-Tesla
-Uber
It's hardly been a drought.
- techterrier 10y agoAlphaGo was a brit thing :P
- pmontra 10y agoActually AlphaGo is British. DeepMind was well ahead on that road when Google bought it. All the rest is American AFAIK even if other countries have similar technologies and successes for space exploration and detection of gravitational waves. If you go back more than 20 years, space exploration was USA vs USSR with an early Soviet advantage.
- clort 10y agoAlso, Elon Musk came from South Africa and did not become a US citizen until 2002.. I don't know that that makes anything that Tesla or SpaceX have invented to be not completely American, but if he is considered the driving force, then .. there could be a doubt Hey, immigration is great! Steve Jobs was also the son of an immigrant..
- haldean 10y agoHow does Uber always make these lists? It's a taxi app. You can hold it up as a well-done business, but you can't call it a technological breakthrough.
- msabalau 10y agoIf you think you can't use technology to innovate on the business model, you don't understand innovation.