It’s become cliché to talk about inventions that can ‘change the world’, but when it comes to transversal technologies – cross-cutting tools with the potential to transform multiple industries – the moniker feels like an understatement, writes Andrew Chakhoyan.
The World Wide Web comes to mind. Also mRNA vaccines from Biontech were a big thing. Pfizer ended up getting a lot of credit for producing them, but the tech is very much German.