The Blueprint

Where has the world'¬"s innovation gone? The internal combustion engine, invented in 1876, still rules our highways. The cancer death rate has barely changed since 1971. Today'¬"s Internet was actually designed in the 1960s. Challenging the notion that we are living in an age of technological progress, three of the world'¬"s most original thinkers demonstrate that we have become a risk-averse society, hobbled by tort laws and government regulations, short-term financial thinking, and mind-numbing complacency. Eager to end '¬Spaper entrepreneurialism'¬ and avoid another financial meltdown, they propose that we expand research and development in breakthrough '¬Sdisruptive technologies,'¬ create millions of jobs through science-based engineering and genuine innovation, shore up our crumbling infrastructure, stop squandering money on misspent '¬Shorizontal education,'¬ and restore financial discipline. The result is The Blueprint, an explosive manifesto that promises to launch a new era of global prosperity through the untapped wealth of human endeavor.