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Had, not has. I spoke of the '500s more or less. The exponential spike in innovation from that century until these days was something unprecedented in human his
by sharikous 4y ago
Had, not has. I spoke of the '500s more or less. The exponential spike in innovation from that century until these days was something unprecedented in human history and started in Europe.
Of course today Europe is not the central point for technology anymore. Still they have a legacy of good schools, accumulated wealth and a middle class, something that is less radicated (for now) in the East
- yunohn 4y ago> legacy of good schools, accumulated wealth and a middle class Where do you get the notion that developing countries don’t have “good schools”? They’ve had formalised education for millennia. Unless you are measuring wealth purely in post colonial USD/EUR, every single country (developing or developed) clearly has an accumulated wealth class, middle class, and poor class. It’s absurd that you think isn’t the case?
- sharikous 4y agoLook at a high level journal and top published papers. Most papers come from certain institutions, mostly from developed countries. Those institutions don't live in a vacuum but have a big cultural and economical environment around them that would take decades to build from scratch.
- yunohn 4y agoI want to clarify that this is a tangential point to by our previous comment and my reply, which you did not address. Regardless, I don’t have the energy to debate your random points and why there are issues with your understanding of them. I’d like to end with the fact that “developed” countries don’t have the ability to actually manufacture most of their “genius” inventions, so…