Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate
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campaign of, 39
debt and, 147
green energy and, 96–97, 99–100
higher education and, 48
IRS scandal and, 150
reelection of, 95
unemployment rate and, 77
Obamacare, 50–51, 55–58, 60, 151–52, 172, 185, 187
Ohio, 74, 76–77
Olasky, Marvin, 176, 178
O’Neill, Gerard, 125–27, 133
“Open 311,” 158–59
Opportunity (Mars rover), 128
O’Reilly, Tim, 162–64
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 79, 96
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), 58–60
Ormat Technologies, 100
Orteig Prize, 131
Orteig, Raymond,
Oshkosh Defense, 109, 114
Outer Continental Shelf (U.S.), 82
Oxford University, 39
P
Page, Larry, 20, 111
“paper NASA,” the, 129
Parkinson’s disease, 189
Pathfinder (spacecraft), 130
Pavillion, WY, 92
PBS, 43
“peak oil,” 13–14, 72–74, 79, 81, 84, 95
“peak oil theory,” 72, 84
Peltzman, Sam, 67
Pennsylvania, 36, 74, 76–78, 80, 91–92
Pennsylvania Department of Labor, 78
Pentagon, the, 143, 166
Permian Basin, 85
Permian Basin Petroleum Association, 87
personalized medicine, 13, 51–52, 209
Pierce, Caitlin, 25
pioneers of the future, 20, 22, 140, 152, 191, 201–6, 208
in education, 11, 27, 175
in energy, 72, 74, 76, 84, 96
in health, 60–61, 199
in outer space, 131–32
in transportation, 113, 121
Population Bomb, The, 102
Prince, The, 19
Princeton University, 44, 125
prison guards of the past, 17, 20–23, 26–27, 32, 35, 81, 127, 139, 141, 152, 163, 165, 201, 205–6, 208–9
conventional wisdom as a, 72
in education, 27, 32, 35, 38, 48
in energy, 80–81, 84, 140
in environmental policy, 88–89, 92–93, 95–100, 105
in healthcare, 51, 55, 56, 69–70, 189
NASA as a, 127–33
in poverty, 174, 178–79, 184
in transportation, 117–24
prize model, the, 131
Prologis, 94, 100
Promised Land, 92
Prudhoe Bay, AK, 76
PT Cruiser, 123–24
Purdon, Timothy, 88
Q
Quantum Reservoir Impact, 77
R
radios, 7, 37, 94
“real NASA,” the, 129
Reason, 141
Rector, Robert, 180
regenerative medicine, 61, 64–66, 69, 188–90, 209
Republicans, 159
Reuters, 57, 99
Rialto, CA, 161
Ricardo UK, 113
Richmond, VA, 107, 158
Right, the, 6, 17, 19,
Rio Tinto, 114
Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon), 114
Rocky Mountains, 116
Rolling Stone, 100–1
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 154
Rotterdam, 103
Rowe, Tim, 57
Roy, Avik, 67
rule of law, 145, 150–52
Russia, Russians, 127–28, 130
Rust Belt, 77
S
Sacramento, CA, 143
Sagan, Carl, 126
Saint Louis Zoo, 138
Salazar, Ken, 94
Saleri, Nansen, 77
San Diego, CA, 143
San Francisco, CA, 108, 120, 156, 158
San Jose State University, 46–47
SARTRE project, 113
Saudi Arabia, 78–79
Saxberg, Bror, 39–43, 45, 175
Say’s phoebe, 88
Scheiber, Noam, 96
Scripps Translational Science Institute, 52
SeeClickFix, 158
self-driving cars, 14, 45, 109, 112–18, 121, 124, 140, 171, 199, 209
Shepherds Flat, 100
Shepperd, Ben, 87
Shetty, Devi Prasad, 50
Shlaes, Amity, 155
SideCar, 120
Siri, 38
Slate, 33
Small Business Administration, 140
smartphones, 10, 54, 57, 115, 118, 121, 158, 162, 175–76, 203
Social Security Administration, 195–96, 198
Social Security Disability Insurance, 18
solar power, 126
South Carolina, 138, 167
Southern Methodist University, 91
Soyuz capsules, 127
Space Adventures, 133
SpaceShipOne, 132
SpaceShipTwo, 132
SpaceX, 133
Spirit (Mars rover), 128
Stanford University, 45, 48, 109–11
“Stanley” (self-driving car), 109–110
Staples, 12
steam engine, the, 6, 9
Stevens, Bill, 74
Stop Paying the Crooks, 147
Street View (Google), 45, 111
Stryker, Pat, 94, 99
suburbs, 116, 120, 157, 185
Summers, Lawrence, 99–100
Sundance Film Festival, 90
Suskind, Ron, 173
Susquehanna County, PA, 78
Sutent, 68
sweat-equity model, 184
T
Tabarrok, Alex, 141
Taliban, 79
teachers’ unions, 20, 27, 35, 38, 42, 93
Tea Party, 150–51
TED conference (2011), 27
TED conferences, 112
TED talks, 29, 62
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, 181
Tenth Amendment, 165, 168
TerraMax, 114
Tesla, 120–21
Texas A&M Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, 86
Texas A&M University, 85–86
THOMAS, 161
three-dimensional (3-D) printers, 12, 62–63
Timberlake, Perry, 197, 199
Times Square (NY), 17
Tito, Dennis, 132
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 153–54, 159, 164
Topol, Eric, 51–57, 68–69, 190
Toyota, 111–12
Tragedy of American Compassion, The, 176, 178
transcontinental railroad, the, 6
Trippi, Joe, 160
tuberculosis, 13
Tufts University Center for the Study of Drug Development, 67
Turco, Andy, 71, 74, 77
Turkey, 15, 156
Twitter, 11, 33, 158, 163, 205
U
Uber, 118–21, 140
Udacity, 46–48, 109, 140, 176, 182, 199
Udall, Morris, 126
underground transit systems, 8
Unfit for Work, 195, 198
United Arab Emirates, 92
United Kingdom Energy Research Centre, 80
University of Chicago, 67
University of Pennsylvania, 154
University of Phoenix, 44
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), 57, 85
University of Virginia, 1, 3
UPS, 114
U.S. Air Force, 163
U.S. Army, 166–67, 193, 203
USA Today, 146
U.S. Congress, 55, 139, 149, 155, 159, 161, 190, 193, 204
FDA and, 67
Kathleen Sebelius and, 151
members of, 21, 167, 184, 192
NASA and, 130, 132–33
natural gas terminals and, 80
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and, 58
Washington, D.C., and, 107
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 147
U.S. Department of Defense, 98, 165�
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U.S. Department of Energy, 94
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 56, 58–59
U.S. Department of Justice, 88–89, 165
U.S. Department of State, 165
U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, 57
U.S. House Oversight Committee, 162, 193
U.S. Interior Department, 83, 86, 94
U.S. Justice Department, 88–89, 93, 151, 165
U.S. Military Academy prep school, 193
U.S. Supreme Court, 3, 155
U.S. Treasury Department, 97
V
VanOverbeke, Lisa, 185
Verne, Jules, 7–8
Village Voice, 90
Virgin Galactic, 132
virtual charter schools, 36–38.
See also Agora Cyber Charter School; Florida’s Virtual Academies (FLVA)
Visa, 161
Volvo, 112–13, 122
von Eschenbach, Andy, 188
von Neumann, John, 101
W
Wahhabism, 79
Wall Street Journal, the, 45, 67, 76, 81, 96, 120, 144, 151, 173, 177
Washington, D.C., 20, 50, 75, 80, 107–8, 118–19, 137–38, 143, 149, 160, 164–66, 173, 185
Washington Examiner, 196, 198
Washington Post, 3, 33, 35, 119, 146–47
“Web 2.0,” 162
WebMD, 57, 161
welfare, 20, 89, 152, 173, 178–81, 185, 196–97
Western Europe, 170
West Virginia, 76–77
White House, the, 94, 99, 155
Whitney, Meredith, 142
Wikipedia, 9, 26, 54, 92
Williams, Billy Dee, 138–39
Williston, ND, 71–72, 77
Window of Opportunity, 131
wind power, 98
Wired, 33
“wireless medicine,” 54–55
World Trade Center, 103
World War II, 18, 116, 151
World of Warcraft, 139
Wright brothers, the, 8
X
X Prize Foundation, 132–33
X-rays, 8, 64
Y
Yahoo!, 8
Yale University, 44
YouCut, 159
YouTube, 11, 26–28, 32, 35, 162
Z
Zipcars, 115
Zubrin, Robert, 133–34
Zuckerberg, Mark, 8
Zynga, 156