Roger,
it's interesting to see the US inventions from 1800 until today. For 150
years, there was an avalanche of inventions, but slowly going down from
about 1960. I'm not a philosopher on society development, but I've an
idea that inventions are a sign of a country 's spirit and pulse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_inventions
Dr Phil announced in his show, that 25 million americans are in health
danger because of eating too much. I don't mean that overweight people
can't be creative, but the whole thing is alarming. We are more
interested in our bodies and food than ever.
Still, most americans work hard and the universities are filled by tens
of thousands of students, there are hundreds of research institutions,
american doctors are found all over this planet and so on, just let's
hope that the 'welfare' doesn't choke to many americans...
and...the worst that could happen is if americans become pessimistic.
Inge
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Sent: den 2 juni 2008 19:35
To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum'; Hernefjord Ingemar
Subject: [TN] [NTC] An unfortunate sign of things to come...
Ingemar, Richard, Guy et al,
Thanks for the relevant posts. In the U.S. we seem to have lost our
way.
The "fall of the Roman empire" analogy is appropriate but it's not
readily apparent that we learned from it. Who was it that said "he who
fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it"?
As for the decreased timeframe of that happening, imagine how much
faster the empire could have fallen had the Romans employed the internet
like we do today. Several years ago I wrote a small section of an
editorial in an advanced technology publication. The theme of the issue
being published was something to the effect of Why Aren't We Innovating
Any Longer? One of my responses was that we are too consumed with
personal comfort, the entertainment industry and professional sports.
When we were becoming the richest nation in the world we weren't paying
athletes and celebrities such exorbitant salaries or driving grossly
inefficient, fuel guzzling vehicles. It's perfectly OK to spend some of
the rewards derived from the fruits of our innovative efforts but the
balance has tipped too far the wrong way. For sure, the "market"
decides everything and the market has gotten what it's asked for. We
have to accept responsibility for it and decide where to go from here.
Let's hope it's not too late.
Roger Mouton
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