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I think people fail to realize that history repeats itself. Eventually some other country will become a super power and we'll fade into 2nd or "co-superpower". It happened to the Egyptians, Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, English, Germans, French, Russian etc. etc. and it will eventually happen to us. Someone will always come along and do something better. Just look 100 years ago England was the Super power, then it was us, and probably this century it will be the Chinese, then it will be someone else. You can only stay on the top for so long, and as history shows us nothing last forever.
Plus, since this is dealing mostly with innovation most of the stuff now isn't being done by one country of scientist. Fermilab, Cern, etc all have scientist from different areas. Many scientist today are grouping together and working on problems. 100 years ago you had a lot of "basement" scientist like Bell, Edison and Franklin. These guys worked by themselves, however they made the technology we used today that makes it easier for many scientist who would normally be basement scientist to work together and produce something.
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