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Historically, the center of scientific innovation shifted from Europe to the United States approximately a century ago, and is currently showing signs of transi
by kmac_ 1y ago
Historically, the center of scientific innovation shifted from Europe to the United States approximately a century ago, and is currently showing signs of transitioning towards China.
- cedws 1y agoSeems like every time I see a paper more than half the names on it are Chinese.
- herbst 1y agoIs there any metric to quantify this as a fact or is it just one of these things US people keep telling themself? In my lifetime I never got the impression that any area was particularly the scientific leader.
- _w1tm 1y agoHow many technological innovations do you remember from the past 20 years and from which areas did they come from?
- herbst 1y agoSurely a few come to mind. Well distributed around the globe, kinda focused around my living area obviously as this is what I hear most. How do you see that? Do you see an obvious tech leader in all fields somehow?
- spookie 1y agoThere are a lot of inflationary ways China grows their numbers. From sketchy journals owned by the government to made up stuff.
- Yeul 1y agoSatellites and telescopes can be easily verified.
- Retric 1y agoChina is going to need to get a lot better about immigration and fraud for that to really happen.
- ixtli 1y agoit doesn't seem like they're having any issue with it in the past 5-10 really. its not that hard to go to the mainland if you have science or engineering creds these days.
- foobarian 1y agoWas wondering, how feasible is it to immigrate for a humble 老外?
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoIt's very easy to be a 洋鬼子.
- saturneria 1y agoYou obviously know jack shit about China.
- ixtli 1y agook
- arresin 1y agoTransitioning back towards China where it even more historically was.
- slowmovintarget 1y agoExcept historically, China didn't propagate technology. It was used at the discretion of the emperor and held as a secret. They had moveable type before Gutenberg, but had a culture, government, and language that were all factors against its propagation. They had a navy second to none, but found the rest of the world not interesting (Confucian Conservatism is one theory) and dismantled it, nearly a century before Magellan's voyages. If anything, their knowledge leaked to the rest of the world as opposed to them leading it. Today, China is playing Go with the world as their board. We have to start counting liberties on our groups; the late game is now.
- andrekandre 1y ago> If anything, their knowledge leaked to the rest of the world as opposed to them leading it. gunpowder being a huge one...