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> Between, say, the American way of embarrassing riches and the EU way of equality I note one didn't produce many tech companies. This is a great point that is
by throwawaysea 6y ago
> Between, say, the American way of embarrassing riches and the EU way of equality I note one didn't produce many tech companies.
This is a great point that is often ignored. People like to claim that X or Y EU nation is better governed than the US or enjoys greater happiness. However they are also beneficiaries of all the innovation that has come out of America for them to have those standards of living - things like the smartphones and the Internet in recent times.
- truprajutr 6y agoHow about www (invented at CERN)?
- stass 6y agoWhat was invented in CERN was hypertext. WWW and internet was largely built and commercialized in US. I think it’s fair to say that a lot of innovative technologies were invented in Europe, but most of them end up being commercialized in US due to market incentives and the whole funding and support infrastructure these incentives created.
- truprajutr 6y agoBy "inventing the WWW" I meant designing HTTP and HTML as well as implementing the browser and the server software. This all was done by Berners-Lee around 1990.