The only risks that the US run are:
(a) conservatism/orthodoxy (freaking out and becoming increasingly xenophobic – happened to the Hindus during Muslim invasions of India and look what that did to Hindu feminism – went down the toilet),
(b) laziness – too many consumers reliant on the creativity of too few producers, and
(c) the joke that is higher education where one learns useless facts to get a piece of paper leading to a dead-end job that has already gone abroad, but not how to learn.
MSH: “I hate to tell you, but innovation has become UnAmerican.”
The current state of American education is to provide the resources by which the well above average high school student can continue on to get vocational-technological training [this used to be called an education of the Vo-Tech variety, where they trained mechanics, and other skilled workers] to achieve the kind of job that has now been sent abroad to be done for a daily wage in China, India, etc., that is lower than the minimum hourly wage in the United States. i.e.– by the time you grow up and get the education to pursue the careers you chose as a child, those careers will have been outsourced!!!
