A New Era is Born

"The first decade of the 21st century has changed the world in a hopeful direction. In that decade, China and India decided that money is more important than ideology...It means that China and India, like Britain 300 years earlier, will become rich countries...Asia, which is the centre of gravity of the world population, will henceforth be rich rather than poor.

That would happen eventually even if the US were to disappear from the face of the earth. But it will take Asia much longer and the road will be much steeper without a vibrant US. Perhaps Asia can take comfort in the axiom that at some point what falls down almost always gets back up on its feet again. This will be good for everybody."

-Princeton Physicist and Essayist Freeman Dyson