Faster, Please!

Faster, Please!

⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager

Famous futurist Herman Kahn bet that cheap, inexhaustible energy would unlock human abundance. The tools have arrived. The politics still have not

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James Pethokoukis
Dec 15, 2025
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My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:

Sure, I know that there’s lots of time left. But Herman Kahn’s1 200-year wager has been in a slump for its first 50 years. Rough start.

“Two hundred years ago, almost everywhere human beings were comparatively few, poor and at the mercy of the forces of nature,” the sunny f…

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