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When Did We Stop Inventing Stuff?
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Dec 31, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
'Disruptive technology' has surpassed 'innovation' as the de rigour buzzword for policy documents, and a mandatory phrase for successful funding applications. Militaries and defence organisations regard the concept as equal to climate change in their considerations about the future of conflict. Is all this nonsense? Whatever happened to invention? What makes a technology disruptive and not just helpful? Nick Colosimo talks to Peter Roberts.
Released:
Dec 31, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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