True, though the world, specifically France/Germany/UK is catching up very quickly in military technology. The UK Challenger is already arguably better than the US M1A2. No nation however matches the US power projection via it's nuclear subs and supercarriers, and no nation is willing to spend as much in aircraft development.
It's hard saying who has technological lead, since we don't know what current technology will have the most impact in the world. I mean who would have guessed the impact of Internet 30 years ago.
This report however doesn't judge technological level of country by its top technology. It measures how well this technology was integreated in everyday life. It's no doubt weighted towards smaller countries with smaller social discrepancy.
I think you hit the nail on the head with that observation.
Well the paper this morning said an American Company along with
a Scandinavian researcher had found a way, inexpensively, to
change type A and AB blood to type O, universal blood. Who do
give credit to. America or the Scandinavian country?
Seems to me, many new innovations, inventions are developed
similarly. No one person in one country is involved but several
people in several countries.
This is true.
Question about the article: what has changed so drastically in the "political and regulatory climate" in the U.S. in the past 12 months to precipitate the drop?
You mean the popular press might have a bias in their reporting
because they don't agree with our foreign policy. Gee, I am
surprised! And really who cares what the press says. Everyone
knows what is going on. Well maybe some like you don't.
I think the federal ban on funding most stem cell research is the main sticking point in the regulatory climate.
I get the feeling the other part of the equation for the rankings is cell phone network quality.
You mean the funding ban (on new lines only of only embryonic stem cells - because there IS federal funding of ALL other kinds of stem cells) that has existed pretty much forever?
What about in the past 12 months?
What has changed with regard to stem cell funding in the past 12 months?
Have Scandinavian countries made huge improvements to their cell phone networks over the past year?
Why do I get the feeling that these rankings are the output of some limited algorithm, that most of the countries at the top are more or less the same, and that the notion that the U.S. is "no longer technology king" is overblowing the whole matter?
I will give this group credit in that their results probably have greater verisimilitude than, say, that magazine whose algorithm spit out that Plano, TX is the best place in America to live.
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