PREVIEW: TECH SUPREMACY Colleague Judy Dempsey comments on the extreme disparity between America's abundant tech ecosystem and Europe's barely visible tech culture. [MORE]
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
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Colleague Judy Dempsey comments on the extreme disparity between America's abundant tech ecosystem and Europe's barely visible tech culture.
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| 1:00.1 | This is John Batchel, colleague Judy Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin, |
| 1:06.6 | comments on the concern that the Financial Times features in Europe of tech supremacy from the United States, |
| 1:14.2 | nothing to match it out of the EU, and why not? Some suggest that the risk-taking is too much for the EU's culture. |
| 1:22.7 | Others suggest, as Judy does, that it has to do with motivation. It's not there. What is to be done? Right now, |
| 1:31.3 | the complaining stage. Here's Judy to explain. Judy Dempsey from Berlin on the tech |
| 1:37.3 | supremacy of the U.S. and European unhappiness, but not pushback yet. More of this tonight. |
| 1:46.6 | Not so much in France. I mean, President Emmanuel Macron has been pushing, really, really |
| 1:51.0 | pushing to get these high-tech companies off the ground. And he's investing in them and he's |
| 1:57.0 | encouraging industry bosses to do something about this. But I think there's a fundamental risk attitude. |
| 2:04.3 | There's a fundamental lazy intellectual attitude. |
| 2:07.7 | Well, they've depended so much on the United States |
| 2:09.7 | and they complain about the United States |
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