https://techliberation.com/2015/06/19/how-attitudes-about-risk-failure-affect-innovation-on-either-side-of-the-atlantic/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://techliberation.com/2015/06/19/how-attitudes-about-risk-failure-affect-innovation-on-either-side-of-the-atlantic/comment-page-1/#comment-125066 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:00:00 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=75596#comment-125066 While I agree that it is impossible to succeed if you don’t even try, i wonder if the current European risk-averse policy should be completely discarded. Is it possible that there are other cultural variable that make failure much more debilitating in those countries than it is here? I also question whether it is fair lump all european countries into this same category. Some countries may have more to lose than others when it comes to substantial risk. I wonder if it is fair to say that if th whole of Europe would embrace American capitalist ideals, then success would surely follow. Ethical pluralism seems called for here. I hesitate to even commit to the idea that rapid and therefore sometimes poorly thought out technological advances should always be the most important goal.

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