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> German politics and any kind of tech innovation I came to believe that German politics still associates "high tech" with the cog wheel: more cog wheels, more
by pgeorgi 7y ago
> German politics and any kind of tech innovation
I came to believe that German politics still associates "high tech" with the cog wheel: more cog wheels, more tech.
Since that doesn't apply to IT, it completely falls by the wayside. And since EVs have less of them than an ICE car, they're also lower tech than regular cars.
So far that's the only way I could make sense of it all.
- freeflight 7y agoThat would also explain the tendency to still bet on "rare metals" aka copper as a transmission medium for the Internet.
- pgeorgi 7y agoI think that has more to do with Projekt Opal by the Bundespost (see https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-Glasfaser-in-ihrem-Lauf-haelt-DSL-im-Osten-auf-3443663.html https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-Glasfaser-in-ihrem-Lauf... from 2001): An early fiber network project that tanked and cut off entire villages from any newer technology than 33.6kbps modems for a decade or so.
- paganel 7y agoRelated to that, it surprised me how spotty the Internet was when I drove from Salzburg all the way to Strasbourg via Karlsruhe a few weeks ago (my gf who was riding shotgun used a more explicit word to describe it). Supposedely those are the best developed regions of Germany (we passed close to Munich and Stuttgart, i.e. the hometowns of BMW and Merecedes). The highway itself (the A8) is in need of further improvements especially the part between Salzburg and Munich.