Babbage: Innovation’s new wave
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Covid-19 has catalysed scientific advancement and boosted technological optimism. Could innovation be the answer to decades of slowing growth in Western countries? Also, why magnetic tape still reigns supreme in “cold” data storage. And how effective are traditional herbal remedies at treating tropical diseases?
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| 0:40.0 | Vaccines, AI and the seeds of a green recovery |
| 0:43.7 | is a new age of techno-optimism dawning |
| 0:47.0 | and could a new wave of innovation be the rich world's answer to decades of slowing growth. |
| 0:57.6 | Hello and welcome to Babbage from Economist Radio, |
| 1:00.7 | our weekly podcast on technology and science. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Tom Standage, Deputy Editor of the Economist. |
| 1:07.1 | Also on today's show, we wind back to the age of magnetic tape |
| 1:11.6 | to find the future of data storage. |
| 1:13.6 | It's cheaper to manufacture tape, tape lasts longer than the hard disk, |
| 1:19.3 | they require less maintenance and you get less heat emitted by an unspooling tape. |
| 1:25.0 | And we meet a chemist investigating the use of traditional herbal remedies |
| 1:29.6 | to treat neglected tropical diseases. |
| 1:32.0 | There's a need for new medications for these diseases. |
| 1:36.8 | They play about 2 billion people and therefore deserve money. |
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