“With the rise of AI,
self-driving cars, and wi-fi connected appliances, it can feel like innovation
is everywhere these days.”[1]
Lest the BBC be presumed to be referring to California, the fifth largest
economy in the world, with Caltech and Stanford University, government
investment in IT and data infrastructure, and a high concentration of science/technology
graduates and employment, California (as well as Massachusetts) is absent from
the BBC’s rankings of technologically innovative countries. So Switzerland
comes up in that ranking as the world’s foremost in computer technology, while
the U.S. comes in third, with states like California and Mississippi being lost
in an average that does not correspond to any actual place.
1. Lindsey Galloway, “What It’s Like to Live in the World’s Most Innovative Countries,” BBC.com, December 5, 2024.
