Rising Above the Gathering Storm

We’ve done it before. The Manhattan Project, the technology surge that followed Sputnik: We’ve demonstrated that we can commit ourselves to daunting goals and achieve them. But we can’t minimize the challenges we’re facing.
We need out-of-the-box thinking, of the sort suggested by experts in a report released in October called “Rising Above the Gathering Storm.” A study group within the National Academy of Sciences, which included the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, came up with innovative proposals. Among them are: