[Scoring6931]

If it wasn't for Turing your job might not have been a thing. If it wasn't for Tim Berners-Lee, we might not have been here having this discussion.

Hint: neither is/was American. Just to throw some examples.

[xvector]

What modern consumer-facing companies have come out of the EU in the past 20 years, besides Spotify? How is that list looking compared to the US?

That's all the evidence you need that the EU has seriously fucked up with regards to encouraging tech innovation.

A lack of tech innovation has terrifying implications for the EU long-term, such as reduced QoL, brain drain, economic decline, etc. - all of which are already in progress.

[cromka]

It’s an interesting bias, that people use consumer facing European tech products and don’t even know it.

Just have a look: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQFqW-dnIUTj2w/articl...

Majority of educational software is European. That list above is missing Duolingo. A giant undoubtedly. Hey, did you know Gitlab was European, too? Or Skype? Or Waze? Or Booking.com? Or Skyscanner? Or even flightradar?

PS. I didn’t limit this to EU only.