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I've the same question with EU. At a certain point they must realise that the reason they're a tech desert is because of their red tape and failing 20th century top-down economic view. There's a reason even their car manufacturing and sales are failing, one of the last remaining industries.
Doing the same with tech from abroad will just ruin innovation there as well.
Maybe it's a "if we can't have good things, you can neither" kind of thinking?
I am not 100% sure how to tackle your comment:
Are you pro-monopolies or anti-regulations? Or maybe both?
Have the communication giants (AOL, Comcast, ...) taught you nothing?
None of the above?
I'm pro progression, discovery, creativity and science. Things that aren't happening in europe.
They thought me things like semiconductor physics, hamming codes!
Yeaaaaaaah, maybe take it a little easier on the kool-aid in the future.
In what way?
Well, for example maybe ask youself which continent produced the first commercially available COVID vaccines?
Hint: Pfizer is a distributor, not a developer.
Edit: Also talking about those fancy computer papers you mention: Do you happen to know where the world leading manufacturer of equipment for high end chip production is located?
I know that one! BioNTech, Germany, EU.
Ask me another one!
Ok, how about that audio streaming service everyone uses nowadays?
Spotify, one of the scandinavian countries I think.
Now I think we ran out. You know more?
Oh, we can keep going, alright.
I guess you didn't see the edit to my earlier comment: Monopolist on high-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment? Comes from a place that calls itself the "Low Lands".
Keep going then?
Good question, but rather the reverse: I'd prefer the EU participated more, so there'd be more competing ideas in technology and science!
Who?
ASML in the Netherlands.
Again I don't understand your comment: The EU or rather specifically the Netherlands is the global market leader. How should they compete even more?
It's only "failing" if you take a corporatist, America-centric view.
How so? Just look at the important computer science papers last decade: most were made by researchers at US firms. Their car sales are declining, because asian cars are better for less cost.
EU really is a tech desert, someone from malaysia to someone from brazil can see that, regardless of their politics.
Not everyone subscribes to "numbers go up lol" as the only indicator of success.
That's not what this is about. More so the scientific inquiry, exploration of the natural world, "What was previously thought unreachable was made possible".
EU is frozen in the 20th century, filled with conservative people. Getting more irrelevant by the day, yet stuck in a fantasy of past relevance.
This has consequences, as now foreign countries are dictating domestic policy. We are for example financially supporting both sides of a war on european soil. We are being told who's and how much fuel to buy.
And instead of recognizing own mistakes, people react with anger towards the foreign. A very unhelpfull reaction, as it changes nothing.