26:09 Whoa, 1988.

Great special from way back!!! Thank you for sharing this!!!

Very interesting, thank you very very much

The report of today would be even more scary...

The US copies the UK system, where too many kids go to work at 16. No other successful country allows that. You're either smart enough to go study, or you're practically forced to continue till you're 19, and have a trade degree. That's how Germany, Japan, but now also Eastern Europe, produce so many things relatively cheaply.

This was all very overblown. 7 years later Japan comes back down to Earth. It's a weird thing people do when they attribute flawless perfection to rivals in anything. Part of it was just that the rest of the world got blowed up 40 years earlier and it took a long time for Europe and West Asia to rebuild from scratch. Some of these companies got lazy first and didn't innovate, then they got greedier and offshore tons of jobs. Our technology and R&D is fine, it's the fact a lot of us don't benefit from producing it. Just a few years later, another American invention starts to take off, the internet. We sell ourselves short.

Get ready for the HDTV gap.

Can you get the episode on failing infrastructure from 1988?

I love your videos! Thank you! I swear it is coming to the point in the United States that I'm convinced that we are going to be the next major sweat shop nation. it's just been a slow and gradual process getting there.