Alongside the terrible price in human suffering and death, the two world wars spurred aviation, and with Germany's V2 rocket, started the space age. Hopefully, this time around, we can get some of the technological benefits while keeping the war to a stand-off with no fighting.
Much of this money will be spent in Europe. Germany is passing a law to restrict bidders for new projects to EU-based, and the EU may soon move to ban much of American AI.
Historically, small to medium-sized firms have been the backbone of European industry, and Germany has excelled under this model. Will it be the same for whatever new tech comes out of these developments?
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U.S. universities award roughly 150,000 to 200,000 bachelor’s degrees in engineering each year, whereas the EU produces 500,000 engineering graduates per year.
Europe's problem is getting enough jobs for them all.
Where did you hear that? My experience is that there's jobs a plenty.
It would have been more accurate to say well-paying jobs for all of them.