While I have every faith in China to leap ahead of the United States in innovation -- given the current state of affairs (the latest iteration of the Scopes Monkey Trial in Kansas, the completely pacified American public ("yeah, there was no real reason we invaded Iraq"), not to mention the state of the American national awareness (Osama was friends with Saddam!) I don't see how all the other countries in the world COULDN'T leapfrog the States!