[Tyler_JC]

If you look at a graph of patent applications by country, South Korea and Japan are just as inventive as the United States or Germany.

Patent Applications by country

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ell, oil is running expensive. The dollar is nearly done. Were all sub-prime, nearly out of work, BUT we westerners (Europeans & Americans) have one asset remaining, that the rest of the world has very little of, and that is our INVENTIVE INTUITION.

[3aidlillahi]

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[CrudeAwakening]

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The Chinese can copy and manufacture, but they have little modern inventiveness....
Can't think of many Chinese (gunpowder !!)

[alokin]

maybe there's a huge difference between China now and in the past when all this inventions where made.
Chinese often seem to work like mad but are little creative.
I think this is because of the oligarchal system they have and thinking different is forbidden, hence creativeness is not developped.

[katkinkate]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'W')ell, oil is running expensive. The dollar is nearly done. Were all sub-prime, nearly out of work, BUT we westerners (Europeans & Americans) have one asset remaining, that the rest of the world has very little of, and that is our INVENTIVE INTUITION.

The Chinese can copy and manufacture, but they have little modern inventiveness. Indians are good doctors & mathematicians, good at IT, but they haven't invented much either.

Put it another way, I could list many, many British, French, German & American's who's inventions have shaped the world.

Can't think of many Chinese (gunpowder !!), or Indians. No Africans or South Americans either. Australians & Canadians ? - Bound to be some, just can't name em at the moment.

Now will this intuition be of help in the difficult years ahead. ?? Will it be this asset that saves us ?. (NOT thinking on cornucopian lines).

Gasmon