Newt Gingrich - Pioneers of the Future and Prison Guards of the Past

As President Lincoln said: “As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

It just so happens that I was speaking on some of these things Saturday, addressing the national board of directors of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA).  Newt is one of only a handful of political minds in this country -- of either party -- who actually understands the implications of an accelerating rate of change in technology for public policy and the near and mid-term future of civilization (Jim Pinkerton and George Gilder are also in that handful, if not quite so politically active).

We need more of them. We desperately need more of them under the age of 50. The world is racing past the increasingly irrelevant discussion in Washington; and yet, that discussion has the power to oppress us all, and to separate us from the vastly better future that is ours by birthright. And note well: that "future" is not just for the grand kiddies: it can and ought be for us, tomorrow and next year and next decade. We can repeal much of human poverty and suffering in this gen…