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molbjerg:
Sure, they'll invent a bit.

I'm just saying that you can't treat japan as the driving force of technology in the world just because they put a bit too much effort into a TV.

darkjedi:
Japan and Korea are one of the major driving force of technology exclusively for consumer products. Consumer products are the finest example of the most practical application of technology; technology, in the end, is used to improve the quality of life of normal people, and consumer products are what improves the quality of people's life. Military, space technology, etc, they only pave the way for producing a better environment for producing consumer products, therefore reducing their 'beneficiality' and 'practicality' level. However the technological quality of consumer products alone does not constitute a country's technology level. Precisely for that reason am I saying that it's wrong to say Japan > U.S.

Japan and Korea are not the ones who'll likely invent new theories or new technology yet, but they still have better capacity to improve upon existing theories and technology, because despite having lesser experience due to their younger generation, they still have more hands on deck. They have more resources, human or capital. (don't put official government R&D budget here; how much of it is used to improve the quality of consumer products?) Samsung has more resources to make something useful out of a new fiber optic or quantum mechanical technological framework than Intel, for example. (useful to normal people, at least) It's the 'efficient application' that matters here. Inventions are useless unless someone applies them for practical use.



I can't believe it takes me 30 min just to type two paragraph >_> my head is going 'lulz'

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