
EI Weekly Listen – You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
The EI Podcast
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The Intuitive View of Innovation
Chimps tell us that the answer must be small in genetic terms, but at the same time capable of opening up an unbridgeable gap in our evolutionary potentials. The history of technological progress doesn't include many light bulbs. Thomas edison toiled over a two year period to find a filament that would glow brightly for more than a few seconds. James watt is often credited with inventing the steam engine, but his design was a modification of an engine that thomas newcomen had developed. Children learn at school that henry ford created assembly line, but he didn't he refined existing production methods.
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