Are We Falling Behind?

I feel the way we miss the invention of the steam engine and the invention of gunpowder and we just lost out. While we are a very tech savvy country, we still tend to be just the service providers to a lot of this tech. But there's very few companies yet and nothing to do against anyone or any sector. And with the country which has such deep scientific base and knowledge and also now abundance of capital. I just hope over the next 5 years we find a lot of new companies, businesses, entrepreneurs, society, ecosystem coming together but we will fall behind. We really need to accelerate.