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Britain's headlong slide from silicon supremacy to silicon irrelevance
- LatteLazy 3y agoWe do quite good research here in the UK, from the fundamental to even practical applications. But we always stifle it. People complain that the US has corporations with a deathgrip on their markets but the UK is much better at making sure good ideas never make it mainstream...
- h2odragon 3y agoSeems like it would've been trivially easy to sabotage such efforts, too. Circumstances like that make honest error harder to catch.
- simonblack 3y agoGood technological advancement relies on good old money. Only rich countries can afford to achieve technological advancement. That's why China is overtaking all Western countries at present. China has lots of ready cash reserves, the West not so much. (One nameless country is 32 Trillion Dollars in debt. You can't come back from that level of debt.)