The lab accident that has saved 500 million lives

“Invention matters, but implementation matters more.”

Why did we overlook the lessons from some of our most transformative breakthroughs?

The U.S. once excelled at scaling new technologies like clean energy and advanced medicine, such as the penicillin injection.

But we've increasingly left promising innovations stuck on the shelf.

So why did America fall so far behind in building?

Using the forgotten success of Operation Warp Speed as a blueprint, Abundanceco-author Derek Thompson challenges us to imagine a world where we apply that same urgency to cancer drugs, carbon‑neutral cement, and beyond.