The End Of Advantage: Enemies May Catch Up With US Technology -- Or Surpass It -- Aol Defense
WASHINGTON: "We in the United States are a bit arrogant in thinking [that] we own the technology high ground," the civilian told the assembled generals. "Technology doesn't necessarily belong to us and where it goes is not necessarily in our hands."
For six decades, the United States could count on being the planet's preeminent economic and technological power. Now, the US Army is looking into the "deep future" past 2030, when China's Gross Domestic Product is expected to have exceeded that of the US. At a recent Army seminar on "strategic trends" -- which AOL Defense was allowed to attend on the condition we not identify participants by name -- scores of military officers and civilian experts wrestled with a world in which the United States may have lost not only its economic primacy but much of its technological superiority as well.
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