The Dispersal of Creativity in the United States

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I like the idea of these pockets of sort of innovation that crop up, whether it's britain or florence or silicon vallet. Will they tend to burn out sometimes when the tolerance and the diversity that distinguish a florence in the 14 seventies get hit by a savonerola? And we see the back lash against creativity, innovation and diversity happening. Ah, we hat happened in countryan over the past for r five years. It's happened in europe, somand in hungaryand so you see a back lash against a modernity. You also see what's happening in the united states, which i think is really good, which is the dispersal

What do Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Jennifer Doudna all have in common? Celebrated journalist and author Walter Isaacson calls upon his years of research to explain how curiosity has always fueled creativity among history’s greatest innovators, and how each of those individuals shaped the world around them. On this episode Issacson dives deep into the curious obsessions of Jobs, da Vinci’s ability to develop a brilliant mind, Ada Lovelace and how she developed the algorithm, and how Doudna’s work with gene editing could shape the future to come.

A journalist by trade, Issacson served as the editor of Time and then chairman and CEO of CNN before eventually spending 15 years as president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, the international research institute and think tank. Isaacson has also written bestselling biographies on Jobs, da Vinci, Franklin and Albert Einstein, and in 2021 released his latest biography, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.

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