If the key cliche in tonight’s State of the Union address sounds familiar, it should. My colleague Annie Lowrey has compiled a short list of other speeches/books etc that use the concept of “Winning the Future.” Newt Gingrich has been dining out on this all day.
- The 2000 book
Engines of Tomorrow: How the World’s Best Companies Are Using their Research Labs to Win the Future
by Robert Buderi
- A 1995 essay by noted business professor C. K. Prahalad entitled “How HR Can Help to Win the Future”
- A 2001 essay on IT by one Dennis Tsichritzis, ”
Forget the past to win the future
”
- The 1992 inauguration speech of Fidel Ramos, former president of the Philippines, ”
To Win the Future
”
- A 2005 essay on libertarianism in America, ”
Trans-Human Expressway: Why libertarians will win the future
”
- A 1999 “revisitation” of the African short-story and novel, ”
Surviving the Present, Winning the Future
”
- A 2005 politico manifesto by one Newt Gingrich,
Winning the Future
- A 1948 reading guide on post-war Europe, chapter entitled “Win the Future,” book entitled
The Twentieth-Century World
