54 min listen
Better Mousetrap
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Jun 4, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
ENCORE It’s the perennial dream: build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. We go to San Jose’s famed Tech Museum to learn what it takes to turn a good idea into a grand success.
Remember the Super Soaker squirt gun? Hear how its inventor is now changing the rules for solar energy.
Where do good ideas come from? A Eureka moment in the bathtub? We’ll find out that it doesn’t happen so quickly – or easily.
And finally, the life cycle of society-changing technologies, from the birth of radio to the future of the Internet.
Inventions, inventors and innovation: all part of the mix on “Better Mousetrap.”
Guests:
Steven Johnson - Author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Lonnie Johnson - Inventor and former NASA engineer; CEO of Johnson Research and Development Company
Tim Wu - Professor of Communication Law at Columbia University and author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books)
Alana Connor - Vice President Content Development, The Tech Museum, San Jose
Descripción en español
Originally released February 7, 2011
Remember the Super Soaker squirt gun? Hear how its inventor is now changing the rules for solar energy.
Where do good ideas come from? A Eureka moment in the bathtub? We’ll find out that it doesn’t happen so quickly – or easily.
And finally, the life cycle of society-changing technologies, from the birth of radio to the future of the Internet.
Inventions, inventors and innovation: all part of the mix on “Better Mousetrap.”
Guests:
Steven Johnson - Author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Lonnie Johnson - Inventor and former NASA engineer; CEO of Johnson Research and Development Company
Tim Wu - Professor of Communication Law at Columbia University and author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books)
Alana Connor - Vice President Content Development, The Tech Museum, San Jose
Descripción en español
Originally released February 7, 2011
Released:
Jun 4, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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