[WesternCulture]

The history of wireless communication:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5jPoQzEh-M

[Jonty30]

You could say that all the companies that are shipping all the jobs offshore America and mortgage crisis and economic crises have given us the 21st century. :)

[equaviator]

“What company gave us the 21st Century?”

This question is premature and absurd. The 21st Century has yet to arrive as close to 90 years of it remain to be seen.

If you could name just one company (impossible, IMHO) as being responsible for bringing us “the future” it would have to have been one whose accomplishments and contributions happened back in the 20th Century. We’re still closer to living in the 20th Century than we are to the 21st.

Nothing changes on New Year’s Day.

[BigCinBigD]

Motorola.

[BigCinBigD]

Motorola.

[RoosterRedux]

his [Isaacson's] magnificent study of Einstein?

I have read his bio of Einstein. It is thin gruel compared to the biographical works of, say, Manchester, Caro, Martin Gilbert, Toland, et al.

[raybbr]

Hey, all you FReepers! Don't you know that without Sweden we'd still be in the dark ages?

That about sum up your posting history, WC?

[muir_redwoods]

It’s not a valid question. Ask who brought us the 20th century and Ford might be a reasonable answer. But where would Ford be without Standard Oil or Firestone or US Steel? It’s simply not a reasonable question.

[Libloather]

[tophat9000]

Its the Internet...created by US Miltary

[Hawthorn]

>> why couldn’t Skype have been invented in, say, Osaka? <<

I can’t answer your question. But in any case, Skype was invented in the non-Nordic country of Estonia.

(Estonia has wanted to join the Nordic Council for many years. But the Nordics simply won’t accept them.)

[CodeToad]

Just another one of WesternCulture's 'America Sucks! Europe is Better!' threads. Thread #23.