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This is how they drive innovation, to over simplify just a bit, you are either an innovator or a peasant. A bit of devils advocate here: Would we have the MRI m

This is how they drive innovation, to over simplify just a bit, you are either an innovator or a peasant. A bit of devils advocate here: Would we have the MRI machine without extreme competition? I hope so, but I am not convinced. What technological revolutions will/have come from Germany?

jashmatthews 7y ago
They invented the electron microscope, so it’s highly likely. Germany played a huge role in technological development of cars, rockets, radar, nuclear physics. It’s hard to find an area of modern technology that a Germanic country wasn’t part of developing. ETH Zürich continues to be one of the top 3 CS schools in the world.
muizelaar 7y ago
MRI is a weird thing for you to choose as an example. Siemens, a German company, is one of the big manufacturers of MRI machines.
- Railsify 7y ago
  A poor example indeed. I'm a globalist so I don't personally care, I just truly want to believe the Americans extreme capitalist model has accelerated global development. Their impact after WW2 has been hard to deny, I also sometimes think that the rest of the world was decimated so they had a long period of insulation and defacto dominance simply because the rest of the planet was beat down.
  - cat199 7y ago
    > simply because the rest of the planet was beat down. Or, also, because your currency was established by treaty to be the de-facto means of exchange to stabilize the postwar economy and then later became the defacto means of procuring energy security so that all countries would be enticed to trade with you in order to obtain some of it. Plus NATO cold war defense against commies. .. but that might poke a hole in the whole notion of an 'extreme capitalist model' (if one means this in the smithian free market sense)
    - Railsify 7y ago
      One did. In your opinion, how should their foreign economic policy of the next 100 years proceed in order to help facilitate and spur continued growth?
      - cat199 7y ago
        no idea. but things don't happen in a vacuum but are often presented as if they did.
HarryHirsch 7y ago
Since you mentioned nuclear magnetic resonance, the first commercial superconducting magnets were actually German and manufactured by Bruker.
dmode 7y ago
Umm, cars ?

jashmatthews 7y ago

They invented the electron microscope, so it’s highly likely. Germany played a huge role in technological development of cars, rockets, radar, nuclear physics. It’s hard to find an area of modern technology that a Germanic country wasn’t part of developing. ETH Zürich continues to be one of the top 3 CS schools in the world.

muizelaar 7y ago

MRI is a weird thing for you to choose as an example. Siemens, a German company, is one of the big manufacturers of MRI machines.

Railsify 7y ago
A poor example indeed. I'm a globalist so I don't personally care, I just truly want to believe the Americans extreme capitalist model has accelerated global development. Their impact after WW2 has been hard to deny, I also sometimes think that the rest of the world was decimated so they had a long period of insulation and defacto dominance simply because the rest of the planet was beat down.
- cat199 7y ago
  > simply because the rest of the planet was beat down. Or, also, because your currency was established by treaty to be the de-facto means of exchange to stabilize the postwar economy and then later became the defacto means of procuring energy security so that all countries would be enticed to trade with you in order to obtain some of it. Plus NATO cold war defense against commies. .. but that might poke a hole in the whole notion of an 'extreme capitalist model' (if one means this in the smithian free market sense)
  - Railsify 7y ago
    One did. In your opinion, how should their foreign economic policy of the next 100 years proceed in order to help facilitate and spur continued growth?
    - cat199 7y ago
      no idea. but things don't happen in a vacuum but are often presented as if they did.

HarryHirsch 7y ago

Since you mentioned nuclear magnetic resonance, the first commercial superconducting magnets were actually German and manufactured by Bruker.

dmode 7y ago

Umm, cars ?