Technological developments in no-WW2 world

Depends on the political situation

If there's an ongoing threat of war, but no war...yet...then it could become a scientific arms race...like the US and USSR in OTL.
 
Or mean the US has a less prominent role in the formation of new technology. Think globally, people... how would it affect the world outside the US?

At the risk of sounding like an ameriwank, tell me any major technological field since the 1945 which has not been dominated by Americans, or people who received technical or engineering educations in American Universities. Electronics, aerospace, computers, energy extraction, pharmacetuticals, medicine. No doubt, without the thousands of US-trained people, these advances would eventually be made. But it would happen more slowly because there would be a lot fewer brains at work, and a lot few dollars being pumped into literally hundreds of mega research universities in the US.

The US public secondary education system stinks. But no one can deny that the US system of huge public universities with strong research arms is second to none. The GI Bill was one thing that made this possible.
 
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