On this episode of Neutral, America was once the world's dream factory.

We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the moon to creating

the internet.

And we were confident that more wonders led just over the horizon.

Clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer, humanoid robots, radical life extension and

space colonies, also of course, flying cars.

Science fiction would become fact, but as we moved into the late 20th century, we grew

cautious, even cynical, about what the future held and our ability to shape it.

America became a downwing society.

In his new book, The Conservative Futurists, how to create the sci-fi world we were promised,

James Pathakukas presents groundbreaking ideas, sharp analysis and provides a detailed

roadmap to a fantastic future filled with incredible progress and prosperity that is both

optimistic and realistic.

The Conservative Futurist invites us to invent the future we want to live in and fight for

a better tomorrow.

Here to talk about his new book, I am really pleased to welcome my guest, James Pathakukas

He is a policy analyst and the Dewitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

where he also writes in edits the AEI ideas blog and writes the faster please newsletter.

He also is a contributor on CNBC.

James, welcome and thank you for joining me in Newt's World.

Newt, thanks so much for having me on, I appreciate it.

This is great.

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