[diego_moita]

From an American perspective you might be right. But, as a Brazilian, I'd say this is the perfect reason why the rest of the world should stop buying technology from the U.S. You are not trustworthy.

Yes, I know that "everyone does it, get over" but it doesn't make you better or even acceptable.

[SEJeff]

As an American eho actually agrees with your comment wholeheartedly, I'd love to see a Brazilian Cisco, a German Microsoft, an Icelandic Bell Labs, and a Swiss Apple. Sadly it seems like the US does come up with a lot of tech that is worldwide dominant. Perhaps it has to do with the way the U.S. culture + government can, in some scenarios be conducive to startups, or perhaps it is luck over and over and over again. I highly doubt luck has anything whatsoever to do with it.

All of this being said, capitalism is a game played by multiple parties. If other countries were able to make things like mentioned above as good or preferably better and sell to. Global audience the whole world would be better off. I just wonder why so much tech used everywhere is made in America originally. DARPA has a huge part of what makes this happen I think and like it or not they are part of the security establishment who made things like the Internet.

[mike_hearn]

Eh, take a look at the smartphone market outside the Anglosphere.

Most likely the OS will be developed by Google in America, the CPU by ARM in the UK, those chips will be customised and fabbed by Samsung in Korea, the screens created by LG/Sharp/Samsung again in Asia, the radio chips designed by Qualcomm (USA) but speaking GSM or an upgrade of it (European-developed) in factories using precision specialised devices created in Germany or Switzerland and then shipped around the world on ships owned by Maersk (in Denmark), piloted by seamen from India and the Phillipines.

The USA has done a great job of developing the world's dominant operating systems and cloud software stacks, which gets a lot of attention here at HN. But there's a heck of a lot more to tech than that.

[mirimir]

Didn't military funding accelerate US tech development?

[SEJeff]

It did, hence my comment about DARPA. After all ARPANET (from DARPA / ARPA), is what became the modern Internet as we know it.