the youth in the west need to very quickly figure out how to remain at the top of the food chain. the engineering , know how/implementation, right down to manufacturing layers have quickly been picked up by developing nations. In a generation or less, innovation & management could also start making their moves outside our borders.
I work in the Tech/IT space (am an elec eng) so my view is from that vantage, but when the biggest innovation are useless ad-heavy revenue streams like facebook, it's a bit troubling to hold strong optimism.
Maybe a bit of 'rock-bottom' is needed to help a coddled youth of places like the states/canada to be forced to gravitate back to the top. with the way the world economic power is shifting, we might not be that far away from that 'rock bottom'.....
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