The Historical Challenge

To this historical challenge from nations that have figured out how the West won, add a technological revolution. It is now possible to produce more goods and services with fewer and fewer people, to shift work almost anywhere in the world and to do all this at warp speed. That is the world the U.S. now faces. Yet the country seems unready for the kind of radical adaptation it needs. The changes we are currently debating amount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.end quote.

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So, while the U.S. rearranges the deck chairs on it's TITANIC the world goes ahead with the technical revolution and all the rest without us. Is it the end for the U.S. or is this the beginning of a New Renaissance, a new rebirth of civilization in new directions?