Almost all the global society-altering creations i can think of FROM THE PAST 100 YEARS are from America. I highly doubt that's true, so I'm looking for counter-examples.

To clarify, I'm looking for items on the level of:

• the internet
• rock music
• nuclear weapons
• ai
• airplane flight (older than 100 years)

And clearly I'm not just including things that improved the world.

The best ones i can think of are (I think):

• Rocketry (Germany)?
• Cheap tech manufacturing (Asian countries)?

EDIT:

Actually rocketry has been around much longer than 100 years. Even the category of "modern rocketry" begins in the late 1800s. Source: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/TRC/Rockets/history_of_rockets.html

EDIT 2:

A further explanation of what level I'm talking about.

There has to be a clear before and after, and it has to directly and quickly effect most of the world. For example the Internet. There's life before the internet, and there's life after the internet, which are both very different.

As opposed to for example if someone makes a groundbreaking foundational research discovery that effects the entire realm of their field of study, but doesn't quickly and directly create a difference in most people's lives, then it doesn't fit the category.

On Lemmy.world when i click a link and then hit the back button, the entire page refreshes. That's sucky. Is there a setting in web browsers that can either make a page not refresh, or make that site always open links in a new tab?

I'm not talking about while you're eating, I'm talking about during the next couple hours after over eating. A food coma is absolutely the same feeling as a good high from some drugs. After eating a way too huge meal and laying on the couch i feel soooooo relaxed and floaty and drifting in and out of heavy sleep.

I just learned about taarof (the extreme politeness of repeatedly saying you want the opposite of what you actually want). So many people online say they made a mistake in interpreting what was happening, it made me wonder:

How do Persian autistic people navigate that interaction?

Many phrases for defecating use the word "take". It makes no sense to me

Even if neither person actually mentions it, you know the song HAS to come into their mind