Which technology innovation did iceland did that Mongolia couldn't comprehend?
I don't know about Iceland's innovation but I think they are forward than Mongolia at least in computing tech.
Mongolia has been a satellite state of dreadful soviet union till mid 90s ,it's still reeling from the cultural and systematic foot print of soviet union,which is a horrible economic and development model.
1. The Soviet Union was a space superpower.
2. The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. Thirty years ago. Enough time for Mongolia to buck up. But it hasn't done so.
Inner Mongolia,which has more mongol population than Mongolia itself , is a developed as it gets.
What are its highlights ?
One have to keep in mind that,Mongolia's population is just 3 million population,it's less than the population of tiny tripura from NE india, their population is too small to be an economic and technological leader after being ravaged the the soviet system
Israel is also small in population but it has done relatively well.
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The question Modi should ask himself is why India hasn't been able to replicate Silicon Valley’s top-end tech ecosystem.
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Beginning in the 1980s, Indian tech companies focused on providing relatively low value-added IT services to overseas clients, rather than developing high value-added products.
Meanwhile, India spends only 0.8 per cent of its GDP on research and development, compared to 2.8 per cent in the U.S. and 1.8 per cent in China,
Above two quotes describe the culture in India largely. The general sentiment is not to be ambitious as described by the saying "Jitni chaadar utna payr pehelain". For those not conversant with Hindi / Urdu it literally means "Spread your legs to only the confines of the mattress".
The article mentions two more successful companies - Flipkart and Zomato - which are e-retail service companies. They haven't developed the two fundamental computer elements - the microprocessor and the operating system.
The Indian middle class largely does not take chances, risks, ambitious steps. It plays safe and hence no real technological innovation from the Indian middle class destined for the world.
Though I must commend three recent Indian space tech companies - Skyroot Aerospace, Agnikul Cosmos and Bellatrix Aerospace. And also the Team Indus group which participated in the now-defunct Google Lunar X Prize.
Indians bring conservative, lean and mean style of working to the table, along with hard-work and down-to-earth-ness, and that is very much in demand across the global corporate world, in these turbulent financial times.
About "down to earthness", I don't know, because one ITES company I worked for from 2013 to 2014, my branch's manager wasn't empathetic to the situation of the employees and I almost created a employee union for this though I foolishly resigned. If I hadn't resigned this employee union would have been the first one in the Indian IT / ITES sector.
Its funny that, Indians are a huge percentage of IT industry, but their contribution to research and new ideas, is ZERO, Zilch. India, never devised any new programming language, or any operating system, new architectural paradigms or algorithms. Indian IT industry is all about low-skilled service sector, back offices and a large pool of internet coolies.
Agreed.
For the past some years I have been designing a microprocessor, in the open source model, and quite a few times I don't see people's eyes light up here when I mention my processor project. Yet these people would give an arm and a leg to work in Intel, ARM or IBM ( companies which design processors ) but this would be because these companies are already existent and famous. Most middle class Indians are just not ambitious.
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