American? More like American’t!

“The Internet?”

I sometimes seriously defend weird opinions, and I am willing to argue that the US should not have sole credit for independently inventing the Internet. However to me it seems obvious that US researchers and US contributions comprise MOST of the story of the early Internet.

Denigration of American inventions is surprisingly popular. There are some scholars even weirder than I am, and they post in the comments of Unz.com about how Americans actually didn’t invent airplanes or lightbulbs. Their screeds will probably convince very few thoughtful readers.

On a tangentially related note, William B. Shockley did nothing wrong.

Mass production of complex assembled items.

Vacuum tubes.

Transistors (may have been independently invented in Germany, but not really developed)

Automatic telephone switching systems.

Container freight.

The Internet.

The Internet?

Does the Franklin stove count for nothing?

Wonder why the North American Indigenes didn’t match or exceed Europe/Asia if the ground was so lucky.

”US wasn’t the point of origin for any of the respective technologies that created the modern world.”

LOL. Plenty of game changers in physics; chemistry; biology came forth in the US. In Zeihan’s world, I suspect Black lesbians are the acknowledged fount of all such things. The US has plenty of Black lesbians; QED.

All one has to know is the words of the long serving early 20th Century French ambassador to the US, Jean-Jules Jusserand, who observed that distant powers could not easily threaten the US because “on the north, she has a weak neighbor; on the south, another weak neighbor; on the east fish and on the west, fish”.

Zeihan’s motto should be, always use 100 words when one would suffice.