Almost all the global society-altering creations i can think of FROM THE PAST 100 YEARS are from America. I highly doubt that’s true, so I’m looking for counter-examples.
To clarify, I’m looking for items on the level of:
- the internet
- rock music
- nuclear weapons
- ai
airplane flight(older than 100 years)
And clearly I’m not just including things that improved the world.
The best ones i can think of are (I think):
Rocketry (Germany)?- Cheap tech manufacturing (Asian countries)?
EDIT:
Actually rocketry has been around much longer than 100 years. Even the category of “modern rocketry” begins in the late 1800s. Source: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/TRC/Rockets/history_of_rockets.html
EDIT 2:
A further explanation of what level I’m talking about.
There has to be a clear before and after, and it has to directly and quickly effect most of the world. For example the Internet. There’s life before the internet, and there’s life after the internet, which are both very different.
As opposed to for example if someone makes a groundbreaking foundational research discovery that effects the entire realm of their field of study, but doesn’t quickly and directly create a difference in most people’s lives, then it doesn’t fit the category.
Even if so, that’s not on the same level. That’s just a continuously advancing technology, not a particular creation. The level I’m talking about would be the creation of rail road technology altogether.
It does begin to feel a bit like you’re moving the goal posts for what you consider “world-changing” as you comment more on this post. If the first man in space and high speed rail are “just incremental progress”, then why do rock music and AI count for you? Everything humans have ever done is accomplished incrementally using the accomplishments of prior human ingenuity.