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They also haven’t invented or built anything meaningful in several hundred years…
by pcmoney 5y ago
They also haven’t invented or built anything meaningful in several hundred years…
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- nicbou 5y agoThe Royal Society would disagree
- barbecue_sauce 5y agoI think the Royal Society could probably be considered biased.
- bodge5000 5y agoThe English or rich kids? If the former, it might be worth remembering that ARM, which many consider the be the next big leap in computing (there was a thread saying it just yesterday) is an English company. Of course I could give many more examples, the technology you're using to post this comment for one, but I think I've made my point. If the latter, I imagine thats too generic a group to say
- pcmoney 5y agoThe aristocracy. The staleness at the top has made Europe globally weak and bordering on irrelevant. (Not that the US in its current trajectory is all that far behind)
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoExcept for the WWW, of course.
- biofox 5y agoWasn't Alan Turing English and middle class?