Eve of Disruption

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Only two of the following three creations have had lasting scientific or cultural impact: The telescope … the Sistine Chapel ceiling … the electric banana. Find out why one didn’t make the cut as a game-changer, and why certain eras and places produce a remarkable flowering of creativity (we’re looking at you, Athens). Plus, Yogi Berra found it difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but we try anyway. A technology expert says he’s identified the next Silicon Valley. Hint: its focus is on genetic – not computer – code and its language in the lab is Mandarin. We got the past and the future covered. Where’s innovation now? We leave that to the biohackers who are remaking the human body one sensory organ at a time. Are you ready for eye-socket cameras and mind readers? Guests: Eric Weiner - Author of “The Geography of Genius; A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley” Alec Ross – Technology policy expert, former Senior Advisor for Innovation for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and author of “The Industries of the Future” Kara Platoni - Science reporter, author of “We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	I invented the electric banana and I am not making this up. Ask anyone who has
1:16.9	known me longer than the time it takes to down a cup of coffee. If I've held
1:20.8	their attention that long I probably told them about my electric banana.
1:24.0	Now, it was a piece of rubber fruit that I bought at a department store, and I put a little neon bulb on it in a
1:28.9	switch and a cord that came out that you plugged into the wall and when you flip the switch that little
1:33.9	neon bulb lit up. It was a rubber banana right not a actual piece of fruit.
1:38.3	Nope I didn't get it at the farmers market I bought it in a department store. Now, every inventor has a vision for the world and what was yours with the electric banana?
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