I don't find myself disagreeing with Umair very often, but this whopper of a post is so skewed with generalizations and stereotypes that I am left speechless. But then again, I am just a dumb American lacking in culture, style, and a charming foreign accent. 

At heart, that's the source of Europe's genius: it is, fundamentally, the most creative place in the world.

UPDATE: It would be far too easy to point out that Umair is posting his thoughts on a blog (American innovation), on the WWW (Berners-Lee developed his first Web tools on a NeXT workstation), based on hyperlinking principles pioneered by Englebart and Ted Nelson, on the Internet (yep, American creation), on either Windows or a Mac (don't know, but neither are European)… nope, too easy, not going to do that. If I did point that out Umair would no doubt use them to underscore his point that technology has had it's day, to which I would have to respond that the cultural forces that technology enables are a direct result of the technology constantly evolving and it's impossible to suggest that you can have broad creative innovation today without technology innovation as an enabler.