The NewAmericanCentury
250 years ago, thirteen colonies declared a new idea to the world. Today America is building the next revolution in AI, chips, space and energy. This is the story of the builders, and the century ahead.
Manifesto
The last century was called the American Century. It gave the world flight, the assembly line, the transistor, the Moon landing and the internet. The next one is being built right now, in fabs in Arizona, labs in California, launch pads in Texas and factories across the heartland.
By the numbers
America Today
The Revolution
Six Fronts of the
New Industrial Age
The first industrial revolution ran on steam, the second on steel and electricity. The next one runs on compute, silicon, rockets and energy, and America is building it.
The intelligence age
Most of the world's leading AI models and labs are American, and so is most of the private capital behind them.
02 · SemiconductorsChips come home
The CHIPS Act and record private investment are bringing advanced chipmaking back to American soil.
03 · SpaceReusable rockets
American companies made orbital boosters land and fly again, and now launch more than the rest of the world combined.
04 · EnergyEnergy superpower
The world's largest producer of oil and natural gas is also building new nuclear power for the AI era.
05 · RoboticsMachines that work
Humanoid and industrial robots are moving from the lab to the factory floor.
06 · BiotechMedicine at speed
From the polio vaccine to mRNA, American science keeps rewriting what medicine can do.
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."John F. Kennedy · Rice University · September 12, 1962
The Innovators
The Companies
Building Tomorrow
OpenAI · Anthropic · NVIDIA · Google · Microsoft · Intel · SpaceX · Blue Origin · TerraPower · NuScale · Tesla · Boston Dynamics · Figure · Moderna · Vertex, and more. The labs, fabs and launch pads of the new American century.
250 Years
From Thirteen Colonies
to the Frontier of AI
A new idea
The Declaration of Independence declares that all men are created equal: a promise the nation has spent 250 years working to keep.
Flight to the Moon
66 years separate the Wright brothers' first 12-second flight at Kitty Hawk from Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.
The AI era
American labs launch the generative AI wave, and a new build-out of chips, data centers and power follows.
The Builders
A Nation of Builders
Franklin and his kite. Edison and the light bulb. The Wright brothers, Ford, Salk, Hopper, Armstrong. America's story is the story of people who built things that did not exist before.