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Technological Diffusion
Joel Miller, the author of “The Idea Machine,” joins us to explore why books are history’s most successful information technology.
Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.
Even when leaders know disruption is a smart long-term decision, the pain of transition can produce a titanic shambles. Just ask Kodak.
Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
Pessimism reigned supreme.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
Israel looks to deploy its “Iron Beam” air-defense system within the year.
The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?