SYSK Selects: Have all the good ideas already been discovered?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It's no secret that human beings have an obsession with innovation -- but has our species already found every good idea? As Josh and Chuck break down the continuing search for the next great idea, they touch on everything from hand tools to cancer cures.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K. Selects, I've chosen an episode
0:37.0	from 2010.
0:38.6	Have all the good ideas been discovered?
0:41.1	It's an interesting one and a strange way it ties into the planned obsolescence episode
0:46.1	we released recently, even though it was recorded almost 10 years before.
0:50.2	And I want to make a note.
0:52.7	It's possible that the listener mail person who wrote in in this episode actually predicted
0:59.0	the coming of the wildly popular site, Dam U Auto Correct.
1:04.2	Prove me wrong.
1:05.2	At any rate, enjoy this episode.
1:10.1	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:20.1	Hey and welcome to The Podcast, I'm Josh Clark with me as always as Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:25.6	And that makes the stuff you should know.
1:27.6	That's right, yes it is.
1:30.0	Not other imitators.
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