Completely true that having the idea is the easy part. But you are missing a few steps between having the idea and world domination.. > Getting something to wo

Completely true that having the idea is the easy part. But you are missing a few steps between having the idea and world domination.. > Getting something to work and then into a commercially viable operation is what I am talking about when I talk about innovation. Which the Zuse KG was for the (early) Computer. Still - you are using innovation in a different way to most people. Most people don't have the global domination requirement. This very much seems like moving the goal posts to me. > All the important technical innovations in the 20th century - as in: those who have had a sizable impact on humanity, happened outside Europe. Now that is completely false, since the arguable most important technical innovation (by impact) of the 20th century, the Haber-Bosch process, was invented in Germany. And the WWW also had quite an impact I would argue.. Never mind more subtle things, like industrial control systems (where Siemens has taken it global) and industrial machines in general (which is also an quite successful area). Things outside the Internet still exist and still have an impact on humanity. And you haven't answered how the potential of bright people is currently being pissed away in Europe today.