A Washington and tech insider rings the alarm about America's misguided approach to reindustrialization and calls for a new solution: "leapfrog innovation."
The United States once defined the future of technology and manufacturing. Today, we have been leapfrogged by China. Our response has been to pour billions into mature industries where it's too late to lead: EVs instead of AVs, solar instead of advanced nuclear technology.
This approach is doomed to fail. The only way to win is to leapfrog back. We need to invent our way to the front of the pack and nurture the technologies of the future that will define the twenty-first century.
Josh Zoffer shows how Washington got technology wrong and what it will take to get America on the right track, taking readers on a tour from the White House to the companies building tomorrow's technologies, including synthetic biology, nuclear fusion, and quantum computing. With illuminating diagnoses and provocative prescriptions for policymakers, businesses, and innovators, Leapfrog makes the urgent case for rediscovering America's techno-industrial dynamism.
