U.S. is losing ground in the world of digital innovation

Ever since the personal computer came on the scene in the 1970s,the United States has dominated the digital world.

Even where foreign innovators struck first, or at the same time asAmericans, it was America that exploited the technology best. Forinstance, one of the best-known early PCs, the Sinclair, was aBritish invention, but it lost out because of poor marketing.

But the tectonic plates are shifting under the digital world. ThePC is very slowly giving way to a host of other digital devices ableto do digital tasks-especially to tap into the Internet simply andreliably. That gives foreign companies a real opening that couldthreaten American leadership in the …