In a fast changing world how long can our economy survive the Technical deep freeze the obstructive government has put on innovation and research and development? What can be done ???

No amount of catch up science and engineering expansion can restore U.S. technology autarchy.

The United States should develop national strategies that are less focused on competitive, or even comparative, advantage in the traditional meaning of these terms, and are more focused on collaborative advantage.

The United States needs to help create a world based on the free flow of Science & Technology brainpower rather than a futile attempt to monopolize the global S&T workforce.

Then the United States needs to aggressively look for partnership opportunities—mutual-gain situations—around the globe.

New U.S. policies should focus on the broad goal of maximizing the innovation and productivity benefits of the global movement of S&T workers and students, rather than the shortsighted aim of

The United States needs to develop a Science & Technology education system that teaches collaborative competencies rather than just technical knowledge and skills.

Develop cross-boundary skills - working across disciplinary, organizational, cultural, and time/distance boundaries.

Universities should build a less parochial, more international focus into their curricula.

importing low-cost S&T workers as a substitute for developing the U.S. domestic workforce.

Communication across disciplinary, organizational, and cultural boundaries is the hallmark of the new global engineer.

The education system needs to better understand the new engineering requirements rather than attempt to shore up approaches from a previous era.

Too Late. Things change fast. The patient has gone down for the third time and may not ever be able to recover from the political stupidity.

It is Toyota, not GM, that is building new auto plants in the United States.

It is China, not the United States, that owns, builds, and now designs what were IBM-branded personal computers.

Countries ranging from Finland to Taiwan are doing leading-edge electronics development.

The one area overwhelmingly dominated by the United States, packaged software development, only employs less than one half of 1% of the workforce.

The United States is not as strong when it comes to projects where brute force applications of large numbers of low-wage engineers are required.