Who is America's Techno-start-up culture?

The inventor-entrepreneur remains the preferred American icon; Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the objects of our veneration. This was already evident in the 1830s and Tocqueville eloquently described the distinct blend of technology and economics that we might label America’s techno-start-up culture.

What are some examples of technological advances in the United States?

American researchers made fundamental advances in telecommunications and information technology. For example, AT&T 's Bell Laboratories spearheaded the American technological revolution with a series of inventions including the light emitting diode ( LED ), the transistor, the C programming language, and the UNIX computer operating system.

How did Americans respond to technology?

In each case Americans responded to these technologies, either because of their scale or their dynamism, in a manner that can best be described as a nearly religious experience of the sublime. This experience, when wedded to the notion of inevitable progress, came to function as a distinctly American ideology of technology.