Remaining Realistic and Optimistic About the Promise of the Future, With Jim Pethokoukis
- Author
- Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) — The Leading Think Tank for Science and Tech Policy
- Published
- Mon 10 Jun 2024
- Episode Link
- https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/07/remaining-realistic-optimistic-about-promise-of-future-with-jim-pethokoukis/
The future will be much improved if society fights the fear of technology. Rob and Jackie sat down with Jim Pethokoukis, Senior Fellow and DeWitt Wallace Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss how the sci-fi fantasy of the future isn’t as far off as we think.
Mentioned
- James Pethokoukis. The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised, (Center Street, 2023).
- Robert D. Atkinson and David Moschella. Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Related
- Robert D. Atkinson, Doug Brake, Daniel Castro, Colin Cunliff, Joe Kennedy, Michael McLaughlin, Alan McQuinn, and Joshua New, “A Policymaker’s Guide to the “Techlash” —What It Is and Why It’s a Threat to Growth and Progress,” (ITIF, October 2019)
- Hodan Omaar, “No, We Aren’t in an Oppenheimer Moment for AI,” (ITIF, July 2023)
