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T A T c he mericAn echnologicAl hAllenge T A T he mericAn echnologicAl c hAllenge S d TAgnATion And ecline 21 c in The ST enTury Jan Vijg Algora Publishing New York © 2011 by Algora Publishing. All Rights Reserved www.algora.com No portion of this book (beyond what is permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976) may be reproduced by any process, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data — Vijg, Jan. The American Technological Challenge: Stagnation and Decline in the 21st Century / Jan Vijg. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87586-885-1 (soft cover: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-87586-886-8 (hard cover: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-87586-887-5 (ebook) 1. Technology and civilization. 2. Technology—History—21st century. I. Title. CB478.V53 2011 306—dc23 2011023176 Front cover: Peter Paul Rubens, Vulcan forging Jupiter’s Lightning Bolts. 1636–1638. Printed in the United States I dedicate this book to all the heroes of technology, from the anonymous inventors of agriculture, to Archimedes, Ts’ai Lun, Bi Sheng, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, James Watt, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, the Wright brothers and Douglas Engelbart.
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