What Happened to the Flying Cars? | James Pethokoukis

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sixty years ago, Americans could easily envision a not-too-distant future of vacations on Mars, miracle cures, clean and infinite energy, and, of course, flying cars. But the dream collapsed, we entered an era of technological and economic stagnation, and pop culture became fixated on catastrophizing the outcomes of scientific innovations. AEI’s James Pethokoukis traces the origins of this “Great Downshift” in optimism and progress – largely due to 1970s regulatory decisions and changes in risk tolerance – and he gives us a roadmap for returning to the era of a risk-taking, future-oriented society.

James Pethokoukis is the author of “The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised.” He is a senior fellow and the DeWitt Wallace Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he analyzes US economic policy, writes and edits the AEIdeas blog, and hosts AEI’s Political Economy podcast. He is also a contributor to CNBC and writes the Faster, Please! newsletter on Substack. Follow him on X at @JimPethokoukis.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.
0:04.2	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast.
0:10.1	For insights into the issues.
0:11.5	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions,
0:15.9	breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold, we hold these truths.
0:20.1	We hold these truths.
0:21.2	With Dan Krenshaw.
0:22.1	The eagle has landed.
0:24.0	Welcome back everybody.
0:25.0	So this is an interesting fact.
0:26.0	In 1899, the Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office
0:29.0	famously claimed that's a
0:33.7	been invented that's that's a obviously a bad take the nature very well
0:39.6	that being said there's's maybe a sense in our society that we could be inventing a lot more.
0:49.0	I think we thought by the year, you know, as 80s kids, maybe we thought by the
0:53.6	year 2000 it would basically look like the Jetsons, flying cars and whatnot.
0:58.4	But there's not a whole lot of differences in your I think a very basic lifestyle between
1:04.5	aside from your cell phone of course between now and 1995 there's the cars are
1:11.0	nicer like things are nice some things are nice but it's not markedly different and so I have
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