Science and Technology Innovation Program Author - Playing Offense in the Race

The US’s 4T Rise to Leadership The second industrial revolution fueled by electricity and the assembly line coincided with the founding of Johns Hopkins, as the world’s first research university and the vanguard for the leading universities embracing a research mission. [...] Technology: The federal government continued the significant increase of its investment in research that helped win the war spurred by the advocacy of Vannevar Bush, who “anticipated a new global competition of power, premised significantly on technologies, and he wanted the United States to invest in all the components to establish an innovative edge” (Zoellick R. [...] As the United States led the creation of the international order following the war, in addition to its embrace of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, it committed to the global advance of free markets (Goodman, 2018). [...] China Embracing the 4T Playbook Observing how industrial revolutions and the embrace of the 4T Playbook led to the rise of the United Kingdom and the United States, it is no wonder that China has such a keen and intense focus on leading the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), a fusion of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, genetic engineer. [...] With America not part of either of these trade architectures and China part of one and seeking to join the other one, the United States is on the outside looking in as China potentially has the upper hand in defining the rules for trade in the world’s largest and fastest growing economic region.