What Elevators Can Teach Us About Autonomous Cars (w/ Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur Magazine)

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Learn what the elevator can teach us about our past and our future. Plus: surprising discoveries from bomb-pulse dating.

Additional resources from Jason Feifer:

Build for Tomorrow podcast: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/build-for-tomorrow/
Website: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heyfeifer

"Bomb pulse dating" is how scientists measure the age of living cells using nuclear fallout by Briana Brownell

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Mohan, G. (2013, July). Nuclear fallout drops the bomb on ivory poachers. Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/science/la-xpm-2013-jul-01-la-sci-sn-nuclear-fallout-poachers-20130630-story.html
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Eriksson, P. S., Perfilieva, E., Björk-Eriksson, T., Alborn, A.-M., Nordborg, C., Peterson, D. A., & Gage, F. H. (1998). Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus. Nature Medicine, 4(11), 1313–1317. https://doi.org/10.1038/3305
Arnold, C. (2013, December 11). Cold War Bomb Testing Is Solving Biology’s Biggest Mysteries. Pbs.org; Nova. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/bomb-pulse/
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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:04.8	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn what the
0:09.0	invention of the elevator can teach us about autonomous cars with Jason Fyfer,
0:13.0	hosts of the Build for Tomorrow Podcast.
0:15.0	You'll also learn how Cold War era nuclear bomb tests
0:19.0	are helping us solve mysteries that have absolutely nothing to do
0:22.0	with nuclear bombs.
0:24.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:26.6	When we adopt new technology, we often look to previous technology for guidance.
0:32.4	Like you probably wave goodbye to a friend on the street
0:35.2	so a lot of us also do that at the end of a video call and you put your hands on the
0:40.2	steering wheel when you're driving so some companies are putting steering wheels in autonomous
0:45.1	vehicles, even though they're not really necessary. The same kind of confusion has come about
0:50.2	from nearly every important invention in history.
0:54.0	And that includes the elevator.
0:56.6	Today's guest is going to tell us all about it.
0:59.2	Jason Fyfer is the editor-in-chief of Entreprene entrepreneur magazine and the host of
1:03.7	Build for Tomorrow a podcast about the curious things from history that
1:07.6	shaped us and how we can shape the future. Here's his story about how the
1:12.2	elevator changed our cities and how we can use those
1:15.3	lessons today.
1:17.4	The first elevators? You died in the first elevators. That's just, that's what you did in the
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