Nov 23 2019

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

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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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In this episode, Josh and Chuck explore whether human innovation is truly stagnating or if we're simply in a lull before the next big breakthrough. They dig into the debate about whether recent technological advances like smartphones are genuinely innovative or just clever repackaging of existing ideas, then shift gears to highlight three brilliant young researchers who recently won NIH grants for groundbreaking work in cellular engineering, cancer detection, and brain imaging. Along the way, they wrestle with deep philosophical questions about whether we can ever fully understand the universe given the limits of human perception and subjectivity, ultimately concluding that new ideas are far from exhausted.


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