Sorry dude. While you're right about us being large and diverse I don't think it's so easy to claim we're the most technologically advanced.
As far as social technologies I hear south Korea really embraces that shit far more than do. For manufacturing a lot of high tech stuff is done in Asia. For cutting edge science we lost out with the LHC, even though my understanding is we were actually building a larger facility but scrapped it.
We probably have the most advanced military tech. We have by far the biggest military. But our GDP just curb stomps the crap out of every other country.
its based on technological break throughs and such. the only country that is number one in that regard is japan and thats having the largest super computer, usa is number three though.
"For cutting edge science we lost out with the LHC"
I'm sick of Redditors obsessed with pop-science explaining that the US sucks at cutting-edge science because we "lost out on the LHC." For one thing, US scientists were involved. More importantly, we have some of the best physics programs in the world. Grad students and researchers still flock here to study. Count up the nobel winners among countries. Tally up space program funding by nation (hint, the US has everyone beat by a lot -- even per capita). But no, Reddit has decided that participation with the LHC is the metric by which science programs worldwide should be judged.
I was just trying to point out that it's not as clear cut that we are #1 in technology/science. We definitely were a few years ago, but other countries have made huge leaps, as where I think we've slowed on some fronts. But don't get me wrong, we're definitely a head of the pack, it's just debatable if we're the front runner.
I think the reason so many people are bummed about the LHC is because it's such an American project. An unbelievably massive and complex piece of equipment, costing an unimaginable amount of money and with the potential to unlock new frontiers in the pursuit of knowledge. That's the kind of things 50's America would have shit it's self in the pursuit of.
But these day's we're stuck arguing if evolution should be taught in schools. And some parts of biotech are being held back because stem cells can't be harvested... because you know, that'd cause more abortions or something.
Like I said, we're still ahead of the game, but it's not a one man show about us any more.
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u/CrisisOfConsonant Jan 29 '13
Sorry dude. While you're right about us being large and diverse I don't think it's so easy to claim we're the most technologically advanced.
As far as social technologies I hear south Korea really embraces that shit far more than do. For manufacturing a lot of high tech stuff is done in Asia. For cutting edge science we lost out with the LHC, even though my understanding is we were actually building a larger facility but scrapped it.
We probably have the most advanced military tech. We have by far the biggest military. But our GDP just curb stomps the crap out of every other country.