While the US war machine yet again loses more wars from afar, its tech industries continue to conquer the world, surreptitiously invade particularly the English-speaking world with their internet, movies, fads, maps and language etc.
The tech industries’ prime concern is that each advancement is built on those that went before and dare I say that there is another country that has been very good at that and continues to take the lead. This is one area where, for a relatively low cost (hackers do it all the time) with constant innovation, even the smallest of countries/people can be world leaders.
It has been a very big mistake to have outsourced all our technology innovation. In many ways, small government-sponsored innovation is better. Australia has proven in the past it is capable of innovation.
It is a very big mistake to lock ourselves into one brand of technology when another may well be the building block upon which the next leap forward is built.