It used to be that the world looked to the United States for technological leadership. Just 20 years ago, the US was leading the world into a new, revolutionary, internet economy. It's kind of ironic that, back then, voices on the American right ridiculed "Al Gore's Information Superhighway" as some kind of wasteful, useless government boondoggle - just as today, the same people rail against electric cars, wind turbines, and solar manufacturing.
