Learning to compare
I read the other day the topic "No one is to blame, but what to do?" . It would be possible to give a detailed answer there, but since I want to raise the topic of the methodological error of the author of the topic, which is often found in many people, I decided to write a separate topic.
The main mistake is that ...
... everyone is used to comparing the achievements of Russia with the achievements of Western civilization along with Japan. I stress: compare the achievements of Russia (USSR) with the achievements of Western civilization, along with Japan.
The population of Russia (even if the USSR at one time) is about 300 million people. The population of the classic “golden billion”, which is usually compared with, is around a billion people. This is where the fundamental comparison error lies.
Error number 2 is that the comparison is made on modern consumer computer technology, developed mainly in the 90s. Sorry, but Russia (and the entire former USSR) lay in ruins in the 90s (and to a large extent it still lies; Russia's relative economic well-being began in 2004–2005, and over 5 years serious scientific developments are not born)! Will you name the scientific inventions that Germany gave to the world in 1945-1955? But the 90s in all respects corresponded precisely to the post-war state of the country that lost the war.
Mistake number 3 - comments like "the Russians did not invent anything from civil technologies." Gentlemen, the world is not limited to inkjet printers and PDAs! There is a high probability that you drive every day on the most perfect in the world (so far! While the basic principles were developed in the 1930s) of the Soviet metro system. Do not forget that the railway has a lot of technical devices, innovations developed in the USSR; that iPhones and Core 2 Duo did not emerge from vacuum, did not emerge from scratch from under the kulmans of brilliant American engineers - no, computer technology, like any other science, was built on the basis of what was done all over the world before. And do not forget that the first computer in Europe was created in the USSR. It is important to understand that the basis of modern technology is including advanced Soviet technology. And it is important to talk about science not from the position of an ignorant consumer, but from the position of a person who understands what modern technologies are built on.
The main mistake is that ...
... everyone is used to comparing the achievements of Russia with the achievements of Western civilization along with Japan. I stress: compare the achievements of Russia (USSR) with the achievements of Western civilization, along with Japan.
The population of Russia (even if the USSR at one time) is about 300 million people. The population of the classic “golden billion”, which is usually compared with, is around a billion people. This is where the fundamental comparison error lies.
Error number 2 is that the comparison is made on modern consumer computer technology, developed mainly in the 90s. Sorry, but Russia (and the entire former USSR) lay in ruins in the 90s (and to a large extent it still lies; Russia's relative economic well-being began in 2004–2005, and over 5 years serious scientific developments are not born)! Will you name the scientific inventions that Germany gave to the world in 1945-1955? But the 90s in all respects corresponded precisely to the post-war state of the country that lost the war.
Mistake number 3 - comments like "the Russians did not invent anything from civil technologies." Gentlemen, the world is not limited to inkjet printers and PDAs! There is a high probability that you drive every day on the most perfect in the world (so far! While the basic principles were developed in the 1930s) of the Soviet metro system. Do not forget that the railway has a lot of technical devices, innovations developed in the USSR; that iPhones and Core 2 Duo did not emerge from vacuum, did not emerge from scratch from under the kulmans of brilliant American engineers - no, computer technology, like any other science, was built on the basis of what was done all over the world before. And do not forget that the first computer in Europe was created in the USSR. It is important to understand that the basis of modern technology is including advanced Soviet technology. And it is important to talk about science not from the position of an ignorant consumer, but from the position of a person who understands what modern technologies are built on.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/77173/
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