A comment by White House science adviser Michael Kratsios has gone viral after a speech in which he claimed U.S. technology can “manipulate time and space,” prompting online speculation.
Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, made the remark during a policy address at the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas on April 14.
“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity,” Kratsios said during prepared remarks published on the official White House website.
While the statement was likely intended as aspirational language about technological progress, it has since circulated widely online, with some interpreting the comment literally.
Well they’re right: it really feels like 1934 Germany right now.
Hitler’s birthday is in two days. Let’s see if Trump randomly declares war on Poland or something to commemorate it.
It’s the day that the clown traitors he appointed to destroy our intelligence agencies are supposed to hand him a report on if they can fake a reason for the filth to enact martial law.
The time distortion first came when a huge number of dense people gathered at the same spot in the white house.
“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity”
I - too - can walk, garden, and drink coffee.
In the speech, Kratsios emphasized the importance of American leadership in emerging technologies and criticized regulatory burdens that, in his view, had slowed progress. “We have weighed down our builders and innovators,” he said. “But we are capable of so much more.”
“Can we get some comments from the innovators?”
“No we fired them.”
