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Who wants to tell the author that not everything was invented in the US? (And computers certainly weren't)
Where were computers invented in your mind? You could define computer multiple ways but some of the early things we called computers were indeed invented in the US, at MIT in at least one case.
I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:
It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.