We should crowdsource a list of all the potential reasons the United States has become less innovative. I'll start: - Weaker patent protection - No existential threat to incentivize innovation (USSR) - Falling testosterone - Social media changing incentives
Come on. Boosted boards? Those dumb remote control skateboards? Compare that to the steam engine, airplane, car, locomotives, supersonic jets, toilets, crazy amounts of medical innovation, television, internet, etc.
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For the century it took to do those, we have a corresponding set of innovations since 2000. Web 2.0/3.0 Blockchain Cloud Javascript* (ok close to 2000!) .. and those are just in tech. They're everywhere beyond that.
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Web 2.0 is not bad Jury is out on blockchain's value for the world Cloud is awesome Javascript seems pretty mediocre Mobile internet I think is the biggest one you didn't mention.
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