My hope in this presidential election is that more attention would be devoted to how we are going to make a living in the future. The United States was once the world’s leader in knowledge work: science, technology, engineering, analytics, and the application of computers and communications to business. While we still do reasonably well in some of those categories, few would debate that our lead is slipping. Our students are not well-educated, our science policies have been ineffective at best, and our companies no longer lead the world in basic research. Several other countries, from China to Ireland, have focused much more on competing in the knowledge economy than the United States. Our companies increasingly look offshore for knowledge-intensive work and workers.