Comment Neelie (Kroes)

[...] The Koreans displayed the history of communications technology. Every item in that exhibition before 1940 was European: telephone, radio, television, computing devices. Then the United States became more prominent. But even so, after the war it was still Europe that developed the mobile phone, the CD, Bluetooth and the first personal computer, and finally the GSM standard for mobiles, and text messaging. But then with the spread of the internet the US started taking over. When we looked over the last 30 years of the exhibit, we saw Asian innovation taking over Europe and rivalling the US.  Europe was fading into the background.