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A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy

By   /  Wednesday, May 11th, 2011  /  Columns, Technology  /  Comments Off on A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy

Last week, I spoke with Fareed Zakaria, an author and editor-at-large for Time magazine as well as a CNN host. He’s put a lot of thought into the “rise of the rest” — that is, what the post-American world is going to look like.
You can trot out the statistics of your choice to show how America is fast losing its technological edge. We lag other countries in math and science scores. But Zakaria pointed out a number to me that’s much more foreboding — citations in peer-reviewed research.