On this week’s Power Hour Alex interviews futurist J. Storrs Hall, author of the mind-blowing book Where’s My Flying Car? **which gives a brilliant analysis of what has held back many forms of progress, including flying cars, over the last half-century.

Topics they cover include:

• What is the Great Stagnation?

• How did you become interested in analyzing the Great Stagnation?

• What is your basic explanation for The Great Stagnation?

• How does government funding of research promote stagnation?

• How does the “green” philosophy promote stagnation?

• What was the trajectory of nuclear energy before government started criminalizing it?

• What legal/regulatory reforms are necessary to decriminalize nuclear?

• What can we do to liberate human progress from its political and philosophical strangulation?**