There are so many Europeans working for trillion dollar tech companies here in Silicon Valley and their branch offices in Europe that I think Europeans can rightly feel they are responsible for these high tech goodies as much as anybody.

Robotaxis not available in Europe proper seems like another example of a regulatory problem.

Sputnik moments can’t happen for society’s with such a high average age. On average, history tells us that older folks don’t have the ambition to flip tables and fix things.