AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min chapter
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Is Innovation Inevitable?
I'm fascinated by the phenomenon of simultaneous invention. There were 21 different people who came up with the idea of the light bulb in the 18 seventies. You re run the tape without sir gay brynn meeting larry page, r, without thomas edison, and you still get search engines. That makes it sound like innovation is totally inevitable. But there's a strange asymmetry here between the inevitability of certain innovations when you get to a certain point. And yet their extraordinary unpredictability er as you're moving forward.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode