It's non exhaustive for sure, technologies evolve and if you cut at the american part of the evolution you can always say that. But see for instance if you say

It's non exhaustive for sure, technologies evolve and if you cut at the american part of the evolution you can always say that. But see for instance if you say "without a Dutch company, no modern processor can be made today" does it mean there's a crushing commercial success of European tech that no American company could reach until we landed on it ? Are the americans so far behind us that they need Europe to built their CPUs ? Does it matter to say it like that ? I had a minitel like all French people, it was a crushing commercial success as far as I could see and then the internet was just better. And one day a Chinese will make something else and that's fine :D