[ninenot]

Really.

The robotics biz, begun here in the 1970's, is now almost owned by Japan and China--just like the machine tool biz from which it sprung.

Any better suggestions?

[RightWhale]

NASA has a new line item in fiscal '05. The new space race is robotics, just as the original space race was rockets. Our home appliances are already heavily robotized, but this is nothing compared to what could be robotized. We will service the machines, as usual, unless we can robotize that as well. Robotics is the best post-industrial economy we can have.

[RightWhale]

now almost owned by Japan and China

Fuzzy logic caught on in Japan and China. So did cold fusion.