Everybody is talking about Slovenia as of a country of great opportunity to become one of the most prosperous economies in the time-span of the next few decades. And even I couldn’t agree more. But for this goal to be achieved, I believe it is about time to take our own initiative, and carve our own path into the future, not just following all the time, to some old models, economies we admire went through on their development. Because even though the ability of being a good follower is essential for becoming an excellent leader, a follower can never surpass his teacher, until he matures enough, to become the latter himself. And since I believe the future lies in new and advanced technologies, why don’t we become the pilot country for such projects?
I believe the current state of the country could match all the criteria needed for such a venture. It seems the country will be led by social democrats, who I believe should distance themselves from extremes of pure capitalism and give some more focus to well-being of the residents of this country, which I believe could come as a very probable side effect of such development. Our territory and population is also small enough and I believe we, as a nation, are also quite adaptable, for such projects to succeed. Furthermore, we have also the reputation of a hard-working nation and I think we’re ambitious enough, and have the guts to take on such a project. Also the big international corporations are not so deeply rooted in our economy, and we don’t depend as much on American economy as the other western countries.
The only bigger obstacle at the moment, would probably be money. But as the projected technologies (if they turn out as successful) should become quite profitable, “investors” shouldn’t be to hard to find. development in such a way could contribute a lot to our “added knowledge”, and might be an excellent way to update our technical universities laboratories, since some of my physics experiments I did few years ago, had to be done on equipment dated almost all the way back to the second world war.
So why wouldn’t we travel by MagLev train instead of our current 100km/h passenger trains and why not getting all the energy required, only from renewable sources? Why not putting more of our efforts in training people to use the technologies of the 21th century regularly and take advantage of all of its benefits (ecological, better productivity,..)?
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And just some interesting videos worth taking in account, I found recently, while browsing the internet (Zeitgeist: Addendum):
And the first part for those interested in going deeper into the rabbit hole 
(Zeitgeist: The movie):
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