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Not sure if this has been mention in the 8 pages, here is Micho Kaku's answer about US's science.
whether certain technologies were possible in the future or not.
Q. How does the rest of the world view the U.S.'s take on science?
A. Let's put politics aside and just talk about science. I do a lot of lecturing around the world, and wherever I go, I am surprised that people admire and envy the science created in the U.S. It's surprising to me, since the U.S. has the worst educational system known to science. U.S. kids score near the very bottom in almost every math and physics exam. So why doesn't the U.S. collapse as a technological nation? The U.S. does a miserable job in educating the average student, but the U.S. has two secret weapons that other nations don't have. The first is the H1B visa (the genius visa), which puts high-tech immigrants on the fast track right to a green card and Silicon Valley, where they go on to create entirely new industries. Fifty percent of Silicon Valley is actually foreign born. This is the brain drain. The second is that our education system selects out the exceptional student. In the East, there is the expression, "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down." In the U.S., we have the expression, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." The U.S. educational system does nurture exceptional, creative talent, which is the weak spot in many Asian societies.
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Although when I was in school I was getting advance scores in Science.
I think the issue today is now the schools are just teaching what is on standardized tests, and not about the science. I learned a lot in school, but from what I hear from old classmates who are teachers now, it is not the same.