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So, do you still believe that the US leads in innovation?
Topic Started: Aug 2 2010, 08:44 AM (614 Views)
taiwan_girl
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I do think that the US does lead in innovation and will continue to do so for a while. The main reason (and this is only comparison to Asian countries) is that the US education system and culture in general encourage free thinking from an early age. This is not so much the case in the Asian education system.
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I do think that the US does lead in innovation and will continue to do so for a while. The main reason (and this is only comparison to Asian countries) is that the US education system and culture in general encourage free thinking from an early age. This is not so much the case in the Asian education system.



Could you please email that to our state and federal representatives, 'coz they keep telling us that the US educational system lags that of the rest of the world, and we need to throw more money at the problem.


[and don't knock those Asian engineers - the ones I've met thus far seem to be as creative as those I've met in the US]
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Aug 3 2010, 05:42 PM
LWpianistin
Aug 3 2010, 04:59 PM
I don't think the US has lead for years.

Sure in the mines of Southeast Missouri we have enough lead in the ground to last for many, many years.
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I just read this thread again and noticed that. Meh - one grammar and/or spelling error is allowed every so often.
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Aug 3 2010, 09:55 PM
LWpianistin
Aug 3 2010, 04:59 PM
I don't think the US has lead for years.
I think that would be very difficult to support with any data. (and unlike the article's assumption, comparing the first derivative of VC funding with respect to time doesn't provide the answer)
I disagree. I think I could find some good data supporting that, but I'm too lazy to look for it. As it is only an opinion, I will stand by my not-so-well researched opinion that is only based on observation. :hat:
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1hp
Aug 5 2010, 08:54 AM
Could you please email that to our state and federal representatives, 'coz they keep telling us that the US educational system lags that of the rest of the world, and we need to throw more money at the problem.


[and don't knock those Asian engineers - the ones I've met thus far seem to be as creative as those I've met in the US]
Well, I don't know what our situation is compared to Asia, but I'd say that yeah, we're seriously lacking in free thinking regarding certain subjects. We have been for awhile and it's only getting worse.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Aug 5 2010, 09:48 AM
1hp
Aug 5 2010, 08:54 AM
Could you please email that to our state and federal representatives, 'coz they keep telling us that the US educational system lags that of the rest of the world, and we need to throw more money at the problem.


[and don't knock those Asian engineers - the ones I've met thus far seem to be as creative as those I've met in the US]
Well, I don't know what our situation is compared to Asia, but I'd say that yeah, we're seriously lacking in free thinking regarding certain subjects. We have been for awhile and it's only getting worse.

Where we have really fallen down is reporting on free thinking.

Or maybe it's on selling the Discovery channel vs CNN.

There is a lot of radical free thinking going on.

I watched a show this morning about people who are making atomic fusion happen.

I met a man last week who is in charge of his private company's manned space program and they have rockets flying.

Did you know that there are boys that want to marry boys? Crazy!

There is a lot of radical free thinking going on.

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I watched a show this morning about people who are making atomic fusion happen.


The US backed off on this - ITER, which was going to build in the US, moved to France when the US backed out. Not to mention that fusion research has been financed by the US government for 40 years or more. Hardly radical free thinking.


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I met a man last week who is in charge of his private company's manned space program and they have rockets flying.


I think Richard Branson (an Englishman) already demonstrated this a few years ago, so hardly radical free thinking.


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Did you know that there are boys that want to marry boys?


Ho hum. The Romans were dealing with this 2,000 years ago.

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OK, I get it. Radical free thinking is in the eye of the beholder.

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Helion Energy, a startup developing engines powered by nuclear fusion, is certain to pique the interest of sci-fi fans. But the more important question for Helion President Philip Wallace is whether the same can be said of venture capitalists. That’s because the Seattle-based company is on the hunt for $20 million in financing to build a full-scale model of its fusion engine.

That engine, which the company currently has a prototype of at one-third scale, works by forming hot, ionized hydrogen gas. The gas is then electromagnetically accelerated to greater than 1 million mph and collided in a burn chamber to generate enormous amounts of heat energy.


Anyone successfully launching rockets at this time is ahead of the curve. I was responding to the "seriously lacking" comment above. In this area the US is not "seriously lacking". And Mr. Branson is OK with me but he is more of a money man than a free thinker when it comes to the rocket. A radical money men perhaps but not a rocket man. And he spends the money in the US.

The US may be lacking in some areas as AL suggests, but on the whole I don't see it. I think the main problem for the US recently in terms of competing globally has been cheap labor. The US dropped the Chinese model over 150 years ago and is probably better off for it.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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