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It's also how the US grew in the 18th century, by stealing IP from the global technological leader, Britain (who stole a great deal from India).
by Synaesthesia 7y ago
It's also how the US grew in the 18th century, by stealing IP from the global technological leader, Britain (who stole a great deal from India).
- beerandt 7y agoI know Britain exploited the hell out of India as a colony, but what IP did they steal? Or did you just mean stolen resources?
- beilabs 7y agoStolen resources.
- Synaesthesia 7y agoIndia had advanced steel making, ship making and textile technologies which were taken by the British.
- lappet 7y agoHuh, I am Indian and have never heard it said like this. Do you have any sources to back this up, apart from the rockets and textile industries?
- shardinator 7y agoI don’t have a reference, but high quality steel making would be one.
- onecool 7y agoYou don't have a reference, because high quality steel was invented in the U.S. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a20722505/history-of-steel/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
- shardinator 7y agoI'm talking about an earlier time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel
- stevula 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket
- gandutraveler 7y agoIndia had 25% of world's before Britishers arrived and sucked all the wealth to bring it down to 4% when they left. That's some serious exploitation.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoConsidering we're all just going to end up "stealing" each others' technology in the end anyway, it strikes me that it might be much easier if we all just collaborated in the first place.