S2 E1 Innovation: Coming up with new ideas
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Forget the hammocks and ping-pong tables. Creativity takes work. Managers at Google, Lego and a pair of AI startups share advice on breaking through.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Catherine Ryan, and my podcast Telling Everybody Everything is currently being sponsored by |
| 0:04.9 | Alternalee, the UK's leading online medical cannabis clinic. Did you know seven out of ten |
| 0:10.0 | doctors would consider prescribing medical cannabis for chronic pain and mental health conditions |
| 0:14.7 | if it were available on the NHS? This survey was conducted in May 2025 and asked 500 |
| 0:20.5 | doctors in the UK from a variety of disciplines. |
| 0:23.6 | Want to find out more? |
| 0:24.8 | Visit alternanleaf.com.uk. |
| 0:27.0 | That's alternaleaf, alternaleaf, like alternative with leaf at the end. |
| 0:32.4 | Dotco.org. |
| 0:41.8 | The Economist. |
| 0:45.4 | Tell us what we're looking at. |
| 0:47.7 | You're basically seeing the robots building. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm on a building site and wearing a hard hat. |
| 0:52.6 | I've never felt more handy. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm here because Salar al-Fee is showing me his vision of the future. |
| 0:59.6 | Al-Fagi isn't a builder. |
| 1:01.2 | He's not an architect. |
| 1:05.1 | He's the co-founder of a Dutch startup called Monumental. |
| 1:09.2 | It makes AI-driven, brick-claying robots. |
| 1:10.4 | And they work together. |
| 1:12.1 | They're like coordinating. One is letting mortar and then the other one is pushing down the brick in there. And they grab the brick |
| 1:17.1 | from another robot, which is the brick supply one. And that one can just drive off, grab more |
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