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798 - COVID, Innovation, and Optimism with Matt Ridley
The James Altucher Show
The History of Innovation Is Littled With Semandipity
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The history of innovation is littered with serandipity, where you invent a thing for one purpose and then discover that it has other uses as well. And so the optionality does emerge very much so in virology too. That t you get, you get varuses that start out being respiratory and they end up being gastro intestinal diseases. It's interesting. You know, even something as sort of obvious as the m phone, we think we're inventing a device for speaking to each other while on the move. R it turns out we're invented a device for sending each other photographs.
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