text: The proper question to ask is: Should we seek to stop change or should we improve our abilities to adapt to an ever-changing world? America and the world will certainly face catastrophic risks in the future; whether these will be climatic, tectonic, biological, or political is unclear. Since we cannot be sure which risks will prove dominant, we ought to improve our generic ability to survive and recover from whatever dangers the future may hold. Rather than herd America s entrepreneurs, inventors, and workers into some elite s politically-correct industrial policy scheme, we should remove political impediments to production, market-driven innovation, and rapid adaptation.