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Frontiers of Human Knowledge w/ Michael Bhaskar

FUTURES Podcast

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Is There Still Opportunity for Big Ideas?

There is a massive debate around whether or not we can deliver big ideas. Economic growth has been slower since the late 19th century, he says. We're not creating new classes of patents any quicker and that's how you would usually measure whether we're delivering a big new technology. And baselit, whenever you zoom into an area, you can find these little worrying signs that we just haven't been delivering big new ideas. All of the problems that we face will rest on our ability to have new ideas to overcome them.

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