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
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As we dig into these, I'd argue now that innovation has INCREASED versus the times you mention. Here's one: We're talking on a global platform where people send one to many text messages. Or we have another where a course on ANYTHING is available for free (Youtube).
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I could go on and on. My premise is that we're living in a world of innovation -- but we have a psychological bias that we are in it so we don't realize what's happening. The proverbial "boiling versus scalded frog."
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