The current global shift in economic power began relatively quietly about midway through the last century, as the United States’s share of gross domestic product began what has been a continual decline from its high of 27 percent in 1950 to just less than 20 percent in 2012, according to the International Monetary Fund.
You might have missed the trend; many did, especially as investments in new technologies fueled the dot-com driven economic upturn of the 1990s. While the emergence o