Well, it is common that it takes years to get services and products that are available in the US. For example, to get a sensor to measure my ECG I needed to: -

Well, it is common that it takes years to get services and products that are available in the US. For example, to get a sensor to measure my ECG I needed to: - use US credit card in an app store, - ask a third party to resend me a device. I am not aware of many innovative products or services that are first available in the EU, and it takes more than a year to appear in the USA (examples are welcome). I do not say that the EU is bad, as there are quite a few things in which it is progressive (human rights, environment). > despite all of these advances in technology, how much has life really changed? For some, a lot. If it weren't for the internet, most likely I would end up living very lonely and miserable. (Well, it give me a window to discover people having different religion than my family and neighbors, to discover that I am not the only weirdo, but there are much more neurodivergent people, etc). Each single things progress is not a life changer. Collectively, they change the way we live. Yes, I am aware that one should weight the pros and cons. Just, IMHO, in Europe it is tilted to "way too conservative" (in its original meaning, "preserving"), with the approach more of a government plan (acting in years or decades) than hackathon/startup, where it is an order of magnitude faster. I am the most afraid of slowing the progress of medicine, which do require data.