Podcast: Remaining Realistic and Optimistic About the Promise of the Future, With Jim Pethokoukis
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The future will be much improved if society fights its fear of technology. In the latest episode of ITIF's Innovation Files podcast, Rob Atkinson and Jackie Whisman sat down with James 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).
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