The editor and literary agent John Brockman challenged over 100 salon of scientists, technologists, innovators, and entrepreneurs by asking: "What is the most important invention of the past two thousand years?" Not content to be merely right, his contributors vied…
"Technology like the printing press was initially feared. It would put scribes out of business. Technology describes each generation in our human-built world."
In this TED talk, Hans Rosling describes the importance of the invention of the washing machine in order to demonstrate how technology frees our minds. The Magic Washing Machine (Video 9 Min.)
Jeffrey Tucker on the history of technology and why innovation is the real star of history.
Whether it’s early man’s first use of fire or the birth of the space shuttle, innovations have always been the major catalysts behind humankind’s success. Some of these breakthroughs brought about immediate change, while others humbly laid the groundwork for…
Innovation, according to author Jon Gertner, falls somewhere between discovery and invention. Using Bell Labs as a model, Gertner traces the history of innovation through the 1940s and 1950s then offers some thoughts on the concept itself: "I think we…