The rest of the world knows it, but people in the good ol' USofA still deny the obvious. This country is full of backwards hicks.
The US has lost its position as the world's primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations.
A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US prompted the fall, the report said.
Maybe not
full of backwards hicks, but we have more than enough of them to keep thinking people down. The Vikings are making one hell of a showing, though. Go Sweden!
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In your face Norway!
In a typical show of American denial, when I told this news to a guy at work he replied, "America is still the best. The other countries are just better at implementing what we come up with." No. This is about innovation, not implementation. "You say Denmark and Sweden are on top? They probably paid Americans to come over there and do it." What about Singapore beating us out? "So they've got the most technologically advanced cupie doll. Big deal."
I love America.
Looking at the table we were #1 in 2005 but #7 last year. The table being a measurement of "the impact of technology" on the nation leads me to believe those countries were swept with a new technology that either already swept the U.S. or is yet to reach our shores. Also with the fact that our "U.S." companies mainly outsource our jobs these could very well be our inventions being produced elsewhere. Or since most companies are multinationals they may have been anyone's depending on where they were manufactured. If the latter is the case it further points to my hatred of NAFTA and CAFTA. Finally, since it is a measure of "impact" we are so technologically inundated it's difficult for any new technology to have a big impact on us.
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