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What America Should Build Next
America has always been at its best when an invention stopped being a marvel and became part of ordinary life.
Electricity was not important because a scientist could make a bulb glow in a laboratory. It became important when homes, factories, streets, hospitals, and schools could depend on power.
Aviation mattered when it stopped being a stunt.
Refrigeration mattered when food lasted longer.
Antibiotics mattered when children survived infections that had once terrified every parent.
America’s greatest technological achievements were not great merely because they were clever. They were great…
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