The US's massive cuts in spending for basic science research and the arts through the 2000s and 2010s - which led to many of the brightest minds either strugg

The US's massive cuts in spending for basic science research and the arts through the 2000s and 2010s - which led to many of the brightest minds either struggling to make ends meet, designing better ways to sell products, or working on get-rich-quick schemes - will open the door for another country/region to become the dominant force in societal evolution. There are only so many ways we can repackage and reboot old IP.