American Spectator, 56
Amsterdam, 103
Android devices, 9, 39, 175
Angry Birds, 37
Ann Arbor, MI, 115
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 182
Ansari X Prize, 132–33
AOL, 8
APIs, 163
Apollo 13, 46
Apollo (space missions), 125–26
Apple, 8, 10, 162
Archaeology, 104
Armendariz, Alfredo, 91
Armstrong, Neil, 128
Army Materiel Command, 166–67
Around the World in Eighty Days, 7–8
asthma, 49
Atala, Anthony, 61–66, 68
Atlanta, GA, 108
AT&T, 9
Audi, 112–13, 123
automobiles, 7–8, 14, 18, 108–9, 112, 116, 122–23
Avis, 120
A&W Root Beer, 116
B
Bakken Shale, 74–77, 81, 96
Ballou High School, 173–74
Bangalore, 10
Barnett Formation (Barnett Shale), 73–74
Bayer, 68
Beacon Hill, MA, 104
Beaver County, PA, 78
Ben-Amara, Ridah, 118–19
Benghazi attacks, 146
Best Buy, 161
“big government,” 155–56, 202
bin Talal, Alwaleed (prince), 79
Bloomberg, 44
Bloomberg, Michael, 183–84
Blow, Charles M., 181
Blue Diamond (nut company), 69–70
BMW, 112–13
Boston, 104, 108, 120
Bowker, Kent, 74
Boynton, OK, 137–38
Branson, Richard, 132
Bratton, William, 147, 183–84
breakout
in cures, 187–92
in disabilities, 193–99
in education, 26–48
in energy, 13–14, 71–84
in government, 15, 153–168
in health, 13, 49–70, 187, 192–93
in materials and manufacturing, 12–13
opposition to, 5–6, 16–19, 57, 85–105, 117–18, 121–24, 127–31, 141, 152, 165–66, 189–90, 192, 207–9
the past and, 6–8, 11, 18–19, 103, 154,
“personal” breakout, 71
possibility for, 5–6, 8–16, 19–23, 71–72, 133–34, 141, 201–9
from poverty, 169–186
in space, 125–33
in transportation, 14–15, 107–24
breakout champions, 22–23, 69, 201–6
breakthroughs, 72, 191–92, 201, 203–5
as buildup to breakout, 5–6, 9, 16–17, 20, 134–35, 171
in education 20, 173, 182, 199
in energy, 14, 20, 72–81
in government, 152
green energy and the lack of, 98
in health, 2, 4, 13, 20, 50–52, 58, 61, 63–66, 68–69, 188–92, 199, 208
NASA and, 128
obstacles to, 202–3, 208–9
in the penal system, 173, 181–83
potential for, 15–16
in poverty, 173
the prize system and, 191
in public safety, 183–86
in space, 133
in transportation, 15, 45, 108, 112
in welfare policy, 173, 176–78
Brigham Oil and Gas, 88
Brin, Sergey, 20
Brown, Jerry, 126
bureaucracy
corruption in the, 15, 151–53
in education, 26–27, 48, 174–75
in environmental policy, 87–88
in health, 50–51, 55–56, 58–60, 66, 192
NASA and, 128–32
as obstacle to breakout, 1, 12, 18, 20, 22, 27, 66–67, 72–73, 95, 118–19, 143, 146–49, 152, 156, 159–65, 185, 191, 198, 201–8
replacement of the, 159–66, 201–6, 208
size of the, 139–40, 148–49, 155, 159–61
in transportation, 122–23
waste in the, 139, 153
in welfare, 178–79
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 82–83
Burns, Lawrence, 115
Burroughs, Abigail, 1–5, 64, 68–69
Bush, George W., 127–28
C
C225, 3. See also Erbitux
California, 15, 46, 98, 125–26, 131, 148, 155–56, 161
debt of, 142–43
self-driving cars and, 14, 45, 111–12, 117
California Faculty Association, 47
Cambridge, MA, 120
cancer
Abigail Burroughs and, 1–2
cost of, 29
cures for, 13, 51, 53, 64, 66, 108, 134, 188
treatments for, 2–4, 68, 192
candles, 7, 16–18, 152
Cantor, Eric, 159
Carnegie Mellon, 110–11, 114
Carter, Jimmy, 72, 74–75
Case for Mars, The, 133–34
Castillo, Braulio, 193–95
Caterpillar, 14, 114, 166
Cato Institute, the, 179
Cavalier Daily, 1
CBS News, 108
Center for Health Transformation, 147
Chaos: Making a New Science, 101–2
Chicago, IL, 39, 120, 158, 174, 184
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 59
China, Chinese, 12, 15, 21, 97–98, 127, 166, 190
Chronicle of Higher Education, 33, 47
Chrysler, 94, 121, 123–24
Churchill, Winston, 203
Chu, Steven, 96
Citizen Cosponsors, 159
Citizenville, 156, 162
Citizenville, 155–58, 161–65
civil service system, the, 146, 165–66
Cleveland Clinic, 50–51
Club of Rome, 102
CNN, 183
Coburn, Tom, 138–39, 160–61, 164
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 140
Cogentrix, 100
CollegePlus, 25
Collins, Chris, 167
Colorado, 74, 88, 90–91, 94
Colson, Charles, 181
Columbia, 128
Columbia University, 44, 115
commutes, commuting, 107–8, 113, 115, 117
Competitive Enterprise Institute, 140
CompStat, 147, 183–84
Congressional Budget Office, 57
Constitution, the, 165, 168
Continental Resources, 74, 76, 88
Contra Costa County, CA, 142
Cornell University, 44
corrections systems, 172, 181–83
Council Hill, OK, 138
Creative Destruction of Medicine, The, 52
Crossfire, 183
Curious George, 38
Curiosity (Mars rover), 128
D
Daily Caller, 95
Daily Mail, 131
DARPA Grand Challenge, 109–11
DARPA Urban Challenge, 110–12
data.gov, 161
Dean, Howard, 160
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 109–12
Deficit Free American Summit, 166
Deming, W. Edwards, 166
Democrats, 94, 155–56, 162, 193
Detroit Department of Transportation, 144
Detroit Free Press, 185
Detroit, MI, 7–8, 143–45, 174, 179, 184–85
diabetes
cost of, 49, 63, 188
cures for, 13, 51, 61–62, 66, 134
disability and, 196
Digimorph.com, 58
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA), 162
Disneyland, 116
District of Columbia, the, 179. See also Washington, D.C.
District of Columbia Taxicab Commission (DCTC), 119–21
Dodd-Frank Act, 140
Dragon (spacecraft), 133
Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, 80
Drucker, Peter, 174
Duckworth, Tammy, 176, 193–97
; dunes sagebrush lizard (sand dune lizard), 85–88
Duolingo, 175
Dutch, the, 78, 103
Dyson, Freeman, 127, 129
E
Earning by Learning, 177–78
Earth Institute (Columbia University), 115
eBay, 163
EcoFinder, 159
Edison, Thomas, 7, 17–18, 171
Egypt, 15, 159
Ehrlich, Paul, 102
Einstein, Albert, 171
Elk Lake School District, 78
Energy in Depth, 91–93
Energy Information Agency, 75–76, 78
English Channel, the, 131
environmentalists, 18, 20, 84, 86, 91–93, 148
Environmental Protection Agency, 89, 91–93, 148–51, 168
Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, 89
Erbitux, 3–4
Escape Artists, The, 96
Europe, 6–7, 21, 113, 122, 153, 170, 190
Export-Import Bank, 98
F
Facebook, 9, 26, 48, 116, 156, 159, 161–62, 205
Facemash, 8–9
Falcon 1 rocket, 133
Falcon 9 rocket, 133
Falls Church, VA, 1
FarmVille, 156–58
Fate of the States, 142
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 66–67
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 184
federal government
breakdown of the, 143–53
breakout and, 6, 8, 10–11, 15–16, 132, 153–68, 187, 190, 201–9
bureaucracy and, 22, 48, 51–52, 155–6, 162–66, 201
corruption in the, 87–89, 95, 98–100, 198
disability and, 193–96, 198–99
poverty and the, 175, 178–79
as prison guard of the past, 9, 48, 52, 54, 57, 80, 82–83, 103, 122–24, 127–31, 189, 193, 207
reliance on the, 8, 143, 159–60
state governments and, 15
subsidies for green technology, 96–100
waste and the, 134, 137–41
Federal Register, 140
FedEx, 114, 141
Ferrara, Peter, 178, 180–81
Few, Arvia, 94–95
Finch, Atticus, 37
First Amendment, the, 151
Fish and Wildlife Service, 86–88, 93
FlightCar, 120
Florida, 117–18, 138
Florida’s Virtual Academies (FLVA), 36
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 2–4, 20, 50, 55–58, 64–70, 188–90
Ford, 108, 122–23, 141
Ford F150, 122–23
Forgotten Man, The, 155
for-profit education companies, 39, 42, 44
Fort Worth, TX, 73
fossil fuels, 14, 90, 93, 100
Founding Fathers, 150, 164
Fox, Josh, 90–91
FrackNation, 91
Frank, Barney, 184
Franklin, Benjamin, 154
Freedom of Information Act, 161
Frogue, Jim, 147
G
gangs, 172–73, 184
Gasland, 89–91
Gasland II, 92
Gates, Bill, 10, 20, 27, 32–33, 46–47, 103
Genesis probe, 130
Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, 118
George Group, the, 166
George, Mike, 166–67
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), 47
Giuliani, Rudy, 147, 183–84
Gleick, James, 101–2
Glenn, John, 128
Golden Spike, 133
Goldman Sachs, 100
Google, 8–11, 14, 26, 39, 45–46, 109, 111–12, 117, 140,
Google Lunar X Prize, 132
Google Maps, 9, 107, 161
Google Now, 163
Google Street View, 45, 111
Gore, Al, 101
“Gov 2.0,” 162, 165
Government Accountability Office (GAO), 139
GPS, 67, 109, 118, 120, 122, 159, 163, 183
Grassley, Chuck, 149
Great Depression, the, 8, 97
Great Recession, the, 181
“Great Society,” the, 179
Greece, Greek, 30, 73
Groupon, 163
Gulf of Mexico, 76
H
“H1ghlander” (self-driving car), 110
Hahne, Marty, 147–48
Hailo, 120
Hale County, AL, 195–97
Hamm, Harold, 74–76, 84, 96, 140
Harshal, 30
Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security, 143
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 143
Harvard Medical School, 39
Harvard University, 8–9, 39, 43–44, 85
Hearst, William Randolph, 131
Henninger, Daniel, 67
Heritage Foundation, the, 178–81
Hertz, 120
High Frontier, The, 125–27
Hope in the Unseen, A, 173
horizontal drilling, 14, 74, 81. See also fracking
Houston, TX, 108, 158
Hubbert, M. King, 72, 81
Hudson, Henry, 104
Hudson River, the, 104
Huffington Post, the, 33, 90
Hurricane Katrina, 143
hydraulic fracturing, 14, 78, 92–93. See also fracking
I
IBM, 9–10
Ignatius, David, 146
IHOP, 138
IHS Global Insight, 178
Illinois, 142–43, 193
Inconvenient Truth, An, 101
Independence Hall, 154
Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), 56
Independent Petroleum Association of America, 91
Industrial Revolution, the, 170
“innobucks,” 158
Inside Higher Ed, 47
Institute for Energy Research, 75
Institute for Policy Studies, 81
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 122–23
internal combustion engine, 7–8, 112, 203
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 50, 129, 147, 150–51
International Space Station, 127, 130, 132–33
iPads, 11, 26, 52, 161, 175
iPhones, 9, 11, 38, 52, 100, 107, 118, 155, 159, 162–63, 175
J
Japan, 170, 190
Jennings, Cedric, 173, 176
Jobs, Steve, 10, 20, 100, 183
Joffe-Walt, Chana, 195–97
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 2
Johnson, Nancy, 148
Jones, Van, 183
Josephson Institute of Ethics, 151
Journal of Economic Growth, 141
K
K12, 37
Kai Ani, Karim, 33–34
Kaplan, 39–44, 182, 199
Kelly, Raymond, 184
Kemp, Jack, 184–85
Kennard, Lydia, 94
Kennedy, John F., 170
Khan Academy, 27–35, 43, 140, 175, 177, 182–83
Khan, Salman, 27–38, 44–45, 157, 175
Kickstarter, 163
Kindles, 26, 66
Klerkx, Greg, 126, 129
Komatsu, 114
L
Lance, Mike, 137–38
Las Vegas, 120
Las Vegas Strip, the, 17
Latinos, 172
Lean Six Sigma, 166–68
“learning coaches,” 37–38, 177
learning science, 39–42, 175, 209
Left, the, 6, 17, 19, 92–93, 95, 100, 103, 208
lesser prairie chicken, 88
Library of Congress, 161
LIDAR sensors, 111
light bulbs, 7, 18–19, 152
Limits to Growth, The, 102
Lincoln, Abraham, 17, 159, 171
Lindbergh, Charles, 8, 131
Linton, Ron, 119–21
Lipitor, 54
Lockheed Martin, 130
Los Altos, CA, 29–30
Losing Ground, 178
Lost in Space, 126, 130
Louisiana, 74
LSAT, the, 40
Lunar Lion (Penn State), 132
M
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 19, 21
Mad Max, 144–45
malaria, 13
Manhattan Institute, the, 67
Manhattan, NY, 103–5, 115
Manor Labs, 157–58,
Manor, TX, 157–58
Marcellus Shale, 76–77, 79
Mars, 133–34, 138
Mars climate orbiter, 130
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 28, 39
“massively open online courses (MOOCs), 46–47
Mathis, Otis, 145
McAleer, Phelim, 90–91
McCloskey, Deirdre, 171
McCrea, Jim, 99
McDonald’s, 56, 116
“Mechanical Turk” platform, the, 40
Medicaid, 50, 147, 179, 181, 187–88
Medicare, 50–51, 56, 147, 187–88, 196
Mellow Mushroom, 138
Mercury 6 (space mission), 128
Microsoft, 8, 10, 132, 141, 176
Middle East, the, 15, 92, 109
Migratory Bird Act, 88
Minerals Management Service, 76, 82
Mir (Russian space station), 130
Mitchell Energy, 73–74
Mitchell, George, 73–75, 80, 140
Mojave Desert, 109
moon, the, 21, 125–29, 132–33
Moore, Stephen, 76, 96
Morocco, 138
motion pictures, 7, 92
Motorola, 8 166
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 178
Murnaghan, Sarah, 58–61, 63
Murray, Charles, 178
Musk, Elon, 120, 133
N
NASA, 127–34, 138
National Academy of Engineering, 167
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), 121–24
National Institute for Literacy, 182
National Institute of Medicine, 167
National Institutes of Health, the, 191
National Institute of Standards and Technology, 120
National Mall, the, 165
National Public Radio, 195
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 155
Naval Warfare Systems Center, 167
NBC News, 52, 77
Netflix, 42
Netherlands, the, 103
New Deal, the, 155
Newfield Production Company, 88
Newsom, Gavin, 15, 155–60, 162–64
Newton, Isaac, 28
NewtUniversity.com, 39
New York, 74, 76, 80, 90, 104, 116, 143, 167, 183
New York City, NY, 8, 17, 108, 120, 131, 134, 145, 147, 174, 184
New York Times, the, 90, 93, 126, 181
Nexavar, 68
Nike FuelBand, 57
Nissan, 112
Nixon, Richard, 150
Noble Royalties, 83–84
Noble, Scott, 84
Nojay, Bill, 144
Nolan, Pat, 181
North American Energy Inventory, 75
North Dakota, 71, 74, 76–77, 81, 88
Norton, Robert, 121–24
Norvig, Peter, 45–46
NRG Energy, 94, 100
O
Obama administration, the, 94, 99, 133, 146, 152, 161
Obama, Barack, 127, 185
Abound Solar and, 94
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