But the USA won't retain leadership either. Well, they will as an individual country. But the cyberspace realm and its denizens will be the true leader of the world.
The Bush Administration will do all the things possible to try to lose our leadership role in the world. But these guys are buffoons and they will fail in losing the leadership role that we naturally fulfill.
There is a leadership vacuum, and we know nature will not let vacuums exist for long. The US will inevitabley fill that vacuum.
1. We are strategically located between East and West. We border both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
2. American English is the de facto global language. All programming languages are rooted in American. All technical manuals that have global relevance have to have an American version.
3. We own the intellectual property that cyberspace feeds on eg., Intel, Microsoft, CDMA, google, etc.
4. You may hate it, but the global culture is American - Coca Cola, Starbucks, StarWars (the movie), Mac Donalds, Brad Pits, surfing. For Abba to be recognized globally, they have to sing in American. There is no way any Chinese Pop group that will make it globally can do it if they don't do it in American.
5. Our capitil markets are the biggest and baddest. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
But, I shouldn't really underestimate George Bush. If anybody can screw it up for us it is the Bush, Cheney, and Rove team.
Give them another term or two in office, and you are not going to recognise the landscape. |
