The United States of America is the most advanced technological nation on the planet, period. It is the world technological superpower and it is form the United States where the vast majority of scientific breakthroughs have been coming for the last 60 years. I asked you what did the French make in term of scientific breakthrough in the last 60 years, you answered a lot but you could not name a single one.
“you could not name a single one.”
- More or less anyone with at least average intelligence and ability to use the internet can find thousands of examples of French technological and scientific breakthroughs that have been made during the last decades. Have you tried but failed, or what’s the problem?
“The United States of America is the most advanced technological nation on the planet”.
- Naturally, “the most advanced technological nation on the planet” can mean a lot of things.
I’ll give you some reasons why I, personally, hesitate to use this expression about the US;
- In general, Scandinavians, Germans and Japanese strike me as being more technology interested than Americans.
- A nation like Canada enjoys a greater stock of scientists and engineers per capita than the U.S. Canada also produces a greater annual flow of newly graduated scientists and engineers.
- Sweden has more nuclear power per capita, a more technology intensive health care, better built houses and spends more on R&D per capita than the US. Furthermore, Swedes drive more technologically advanced cars and have a better access to things like broadband and digital TV (ALL households in Sweden have digital tv, the analog net has been switched off completely). In many fields of ICT, Stockholm is clearly ahead of Silicon Valley. Large parts of our common digital future is today created in Stockholm sooner than in the Bay Area. Despite the fact that Sweden lacks oil and Swedes work less than Americans, Swedish wages are higher, which is explained by the fact that Swedish companies are immensely successful, which in its turn is due to their outstanding technological competence - no country can compete with Swedes in the field of making profits from technological know-how (even if there naturally are several countries which are home to larger numbers of profitable, technology based multinationals than Sweden).
However, I admit that there also exists a lot of good arguments for calling the US the most technologically advanced nation on Earth. What definition you find to be the most correct one of “the most technologically advanced nation” probably depends on what country you’re from. I like the US a lot, but as a patriotic Swede it’s natural for me to view Sweden as the best and most advanced country in the world, even if there are aspects of Sweden that I don’t like (99% of all our politicians is one such example).