In 15 years, what do u see as the leading country in military, technology and education? any reason for that?
928555
Military will still be America.  Technology would be Japan and education will be somewhere in Europe.\n\nMy reasoning?  Just what I think.
218369
The USA is on its way out that's why.\n\nWhy not lash out before i sink..the theory is..to me anyway.\n\nNot from tanks or bombs, but from economic collapse.\n\nFACT: Within 15 years CHINA will be the greatest economic force on this planet.
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Militarily, it is, without a doubt, the USA. Capability, force projection, unparallelled. Intelligent, motivated, skilled and well-trained volunteer servicemembers. Top notch weapons technology.\n\nAnd yes, I'm from USA. But that doesn't change the answer.
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Good question!\nI don't think there is actually a moving "center of civilization". It seems to me an oversimplification of schoolboks.\nTake China, for example. Its empire has been at the technological edge until a few centuries ago, then it had a decay and today is emerging back, but not after (or caused by) Japan development as your theory seems to go.\nThen, take India. You say it is rising after China, but note that India it is already a nation more "civilized" than China if you intend this term with respect to democracy, legality and civil rights.\n\nUnderstanding the historical forces driving the civilization process is a complex and extremely interesting challenge. To probe further, I suggest reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel", the wonderful Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the biologist and geographer Jared Diamond.
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I think that we will have a military prescence in those two countries for many years to come.  Look at Germany and Japan. 60 years after the end of WWII and we still have forces in those two countries.
770643
Australia.\n\nWorld class universities (several are in the top 10), cheaper educational and living costs.
53247
One thing...now you can ask such a question and get an instant reply....\n\nEverything is now under your fingertips...\n\nImagine how life is now compared to 15 years ago (I mean technology wise), and see how we will be comparing oueselves to the next 15 years...\n\nTechnology in IT is NOT running, but sprinting...
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No country will ever be perfect by the standards you mentioned for example the best in financially and economically, militarily, cooperatively, and standard of living.\nBut the best in all fields, except military, in 20 years, I would say Luxemburg.
33699
What do you mean by strongest?  Economically strongest, militarily strongest?\n\nWell, in the military case, I would say the US.  We have nuclear weapons, we have satellites for eavesdropping and intelligence gathering, more submarines than any other country, probably the largest navy, geographic isolation due to the Atlantic and Pacific and fairly stable neighbors to the north and south, etc.
1125180
India has a lot to do before it becomes the best, but we are not far behind either.\nUS is surely at the top.We are almost at par when it comes to Remote sensing stellites. Even the Communication satellites are quite good. We are behind in the areas of deep space exploration and launch vehicles, but considering the amount of budget spent we are pretty well off... I think we are just behind the japanese and chinese...
840879
As pointed out there are many levels on which this could be answered.\nHowever, your question suggests which country has the most might regardless of component factors.\nhere goes.\n1.USA\n2.china.\n3.israel.\n4.britain.\n5.france.\n6.north korea\n7.russia\n8.finland\n9.australia\n10japan.
1113959
Education technique and tools in Philippines are way behind from other countries like U.S, etc. The effectivity is not enough supply for the future generation because of lack of high technology. Teachers are not knowledgeable enough to discuss about new technologies and their usage because no enough tools to learn about.
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Militarily or economically or both?\n\n25 years from now:\n\nMilitarily: \n\n1 China \n2 US \n3 Europe (collectively and including UK. It is possible Europe will be some form of federation by then anyway).\n4 India \n5 Pakistan (possibly in a collective with the other 'Stans', such as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Iran). This 'Stan' axis will also be closely linked with the Islamic States of the Middle East and Asia.. The rest of the World's nations will be also-rans.\n\nEconomically: \n\n1 China \n2 Europe (including UK) \n3 USA \n4 India \n5 Australia.\n\nIn practice, the economic power is the World's superpower. Trade wins friends and influences people rather more effectively than bullets and bluster (Bush take note).\n\nSo China will rule and Europe will be #2. The US won't be taking this lying down and will be using all its brilliant business skills to fight back. But it will be a losing battle. \n\nAmericans have only themselves to blame for this. Their unshakeable belief in their superiority has blinded them to a World changing before their eyes which, with every day, is less in awe of Uncle Sam.
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India - it is the world's largest democracy and it has a huge educated population that is willing to work at levels lower than most individuals in the West.
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Defense, being a superpower has the major economical factors of meaning large army.\n\nNow for this, other thigns suffer, such as Health and Education, meaning that as a whole the society will stagnate as new ideas can't spread through education and Health is the way you keep people around to remember the old.
1170259
Their education surpasses ours, can graduate high school at 15/16 years of age because of it.  It is of primary importance to them, where we sometimes lack this.
161920
Currently IT (information technology) looks attractive. BioInformatics will also grow in mature in near future. Similarly aviation will also be going to boom up.\n\n-vc