"There is nothing predestined about technological progress and scientific discovery. They require the efforts and energies of men and women, the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion. [...]
Today, energy prices still burden producers and consumers alike, and the grid remains precarious. Over the past 30 years only three commercial nuclear reactors have been built and 10 have been closed. [...] Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be. Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world. Our cars do not fly.
Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong.
Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.
But we are capable of so much more.
Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/04/remarks-by-director-kratsios-at-the-endless-frontiers-retreat/
The White House
Remarks by Director Kratsios at the Endless Frontiers Retreat
THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY Endless Frontiers Retreat, Austin, Texas April 14, 2025 THE DIRECTOR: Thank you for the
