5 min listen
Strachey Lecture: How Innovation Works - Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Strachey Lecture: How Innovation Works - Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
ratings:
Length:
55 minutes
Released:
May 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.
Released:
May 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (25)
Strachey Lecture: Bidirectional Computation is Effectful: A reconstruction (slides and voiceover) of a talk given at the Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (snapl.org/2015) in May 2015. by Strachey Lectures