S1E7: A Clock in the Sky

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 1714, British parliament offered a huge cash prize to anyone who could find a way to determine longitude at sea. And it worked, sort of ... several decades later. Are modern contests (DARPA challenges, the X Prize) offering riches and glory an effective way to spur technological innovation? Guests include: Dava Sobel, author of Longitude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:02.4	It's hard and it's brutal and that's what makes it special.
0:06.2	The multi-award winning series, FX's The Bear, is back for a brand new season.
0:11.4	Upon my signal, unleash hell.
0:15.4	And every second counts.
0:17.8	When that shows zero, this restaurant ceases operations.
0:21.8	FX is the bear.
0:23.1	New season streaming June 26th exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.3	18 plus subscription required.
0:28.6	Teas and Cs apply.
0:31.1	Launching bot number seven.
0:34.9	Dad strobes on, audible goes out, And Dad is off and running at the DARPA Grand Challenge.
0:43.7	Way back in 2004, I covered a team that was involved in a very unusual kind of race.
0:49.4	This is the announcer at the start line.
0:51.1	Dad stands for Digital Auto Drive. The DAD Grand Challenge.
0:55.6	The race was called the DARPA Grand Challenge.
0:58.7	Oh, yes, DARPA.
0:59.8	It's an arm of the U.S. military, but I like to think of it more like that laboratory
1:02.9	you always see in James Bond films where they're like inventing crazy stuff.
1:06.6	And some of it works and some of it doesn't.
1:08.3	And in DARPA's case, they've produced some amazing things. They were responsible, for example, for the creation of the Internet.
1:13.2	Yes, a little thing called the Internet you might have heard of.
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