04-27-2021, 05:41 PM
@"Finspiracy"
>It is 2021 now, and German engineering work is still one of the best in the world, if not THE best.
They're good at some things, like automobiles and precision machines. They make good cuckoo clocks, too (but not watches -- that belong to the Swiss).
But they missed the boat on atomic weapons, and perhaps more critically, programmable computers. Took them FOREVER to leave their four-ring binders behind and transition to modern information systems. They still badly lag in computer hardware and software, I am aware of only one large German firm that does database work and is among the leaders in the field.
Cheers
>It is 2021 now, and German engineering work is still one of the best in the world, if not THE best.
They're good at some things, like automobiles and precision machines. They make good cuckoo clocks, too (but not watches -- that belong to the Swiss).
But they missed the boat on atomic weapons, and perhaps more critically, programmable computers. Took them FOREVER to leave their four-ring binders behind and transition to modern information systems. They still badly lag in computer hardware and software, I am aware of only one large German firm that does database work and is among the leaders in the field.
Cheers
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