Summary: Inventors are special because they look beyond raw data to create new ideas that can change the world. Invention is happening faster than ever, especially in deep science and technology fields. Supporting inventors with belief, attention, and funding helps bring important new inventions to life.
Invention starts not just in the raw data, but it’s
the decision to look beyond that. So without the neural
architecture that allowed for of human creativity, we would be
doing the same thing that we did millions of years ago,
just like every other species were surrounded with (View Highlight)
Pablos has just written a book called Deep Future,
which comes out next week, and his take in the
book is that invention is humanity’s most important creative force,
but it’s also the one we’ve neglected the most. Inventors
are often misunderstood and underfunded because there’s often not a
good system to support them. (View Highlight)
he
figured out that these milk maids who were milking cows
contracted cow pox, which is not as life threatening, not
really as big of a deal disease, but then.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
They never got smallpox. (View Highlight)
the basis of creativity is your brain
goes through the world, absorbs all everything in your world
and your culture, your moment history, and then what it’s
doing is remixing. It’s bending, breaking, blending, putting these things
together in new ways. (View Highlight)
what would you do with a battery that never
needs to be charged (View Highlight)
if you give a gadget
like that to a hacker, then the question is different.
The question is what can I make this do? And
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hackers will flip it over and take out all the
screws and break it into a lot of little pieces,
but then figure out what you can build from the rubble,
and that’s that discovery process. That’s where you get all
of your new technologies. Nobody ever invented a new technology
by reading the directions. (View Highlight)
a big part of really making scientific
progress is to assume that some fraction of everything you’ve learned,
all the models you’ve learned before you is incorrect, some
fraction and and and there’s a different way of doing
the whole thing. (View Highlight)
You create something. The world
didn’t have it before you created something. And even if
it’s just a skateboard trick, that’s creativity. (View Highlight)
The Internet, I think is the most important event we’ve
ever had as a species, in large part because it
allows the instant and global dissemination of information. (View Highlight)
as far as scientific discovery, because you know,
nobody had written anything down before you. But now now
we have the compound interest of the entry the way
you describe.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, exactly, and we have the compound interest of all
the inventions that have come before.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So now invention is going faster than ever. (View Highlight)
when you
look at the big problem in the world food, water, waste, sanitation, construction, energy,
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and manufacturing, those are not things you’re going to improve
with software. I mean, you could improve them a little
bit one or two percent, you’re not going to reinvent them. (View Highlight)
we have
all the medals you could need for hundreds of years
in this country, all those rarest medals. (View Highlight)
You beam power to the
poles or to the middle of Africa. You don’t need storage,
you don’t need transmission lines, and so it’s just clean
energy that goes everywhere. (View Highlight)
Ep113 “What’s special about inventors?” (with Pablos Holman) (View Highlight)