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New technologies will 'make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier'

The Gateway Pundit reassured readers they had "read that right" in response to a report that Michael Kratsios, the tech chief for the White House, had stated, "Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space."

"We are capable of so much more," he said, according to a White House posting. The nation's tech, he said, "leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity. As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America's workers, of extending human ability so that more people can do more, and, more meaningful work. But unrestricted immigration, and reliance on cheap labor both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving productivity with technology.

"It is the choices of individuals that will make the new American Golden Age possible: the choice of individuals to master the sclerosis of the state, and the choice of individuals to craft new technologies and give themselves to scientific discoveries that will bend time and space, make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier."

The "cryptic" statement about manipulating time and space, however, was left with no elaboration.

But the report noted that was "no surprise given the likely classified nature of such tech."

The remark followed only by days President Donald Trump's own comment about America's capabilities, when he said, "We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is. And it is the most powerful in the world … not even close."

He, too, didn't provide specifics.

Kratsios, at the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas, noted America's accomplishments, the Atomic Age, the Space Race, the internet, and more.

"Today we fight to restore that inheritance. As the failure of the Biden administration's 'small yard, high fence' approach makes clear, it is not enough to seek to protect America's technological lead. We also have a duty to promote American technological leadership."

He said the nation now is losing ground on nuclear power, life expectancy, passenger planes and trains and "our cars do not fly."

"Stagnation was a choice," he said. "We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America's ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along."

But that's not required.

"We can build in new ways that let us do more with less, or we can borrow from the future. We have chosen to borrow from the future again and again. Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt. And we have chosen debt. Today we choose a better way."

He said going forward America must make "smart" choices, must make the "right" choices, and then the "easy" choice "to adopt the incredible products and tools made by American builders and to enable their export abroad."

"Whether in AI, quantum, biotech, or next-generation semiconductors, in partnership with the private sector and academia, it is the duty of government to enable scientists to create new theories and empower engineers to put them into practice. Prizes, advance market commitments, and other novel funding mechanisms, like fast and flexible grants, can multiply the impact of government-funded research. At a time defined by the desire to build in America again, we have to throw off the burden of bad regulations that weigh down our innovators, and use federal resources to test, to deploy, and to mature emerging technologies."

He said the current rules must be evaluated for what they prohibit, and what they cost.

"Our innovators make incredible breakthroughs, but consumers, government included, require products that meet their needs, not just the wide-open country of frontier technology. Our industrial might, unleashed at home, and our technical achievements from AI to aerospace, successfully commercialized, can also be powerful instruments of diplomacy abroad and key components of our international alliances."

The Gateway Pundit noted, "This kind of talk isn't without precedent. Since its inception in 1958, DARPA—the Pentagon's secretive research arm—has been quietly developing breakthrough technologies decades ahead of their time. From stealth aircraft and GPS to early internet infrastructure, DARPA's track record shows that by the time the public hears about these programs, they're already old news in classified circles. It's not a stretch to believe that far more advanced systems, possibly even those capable of 'bending time and space,' are already deep in the pipeline."