Speculative Technologies with Ben Reinhardt [Macroscience cross-post]
Tim Hwang turns the tables and interviews me (Ben) about Speculative Technologies and research management.
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Idea Machines
Idea Machines is a deep dive into the systems and people that bring innovations from glimmers in someone's eye all the way to tools, processes, and ideas that can shift paradigms. We see the...
Episodes
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Industrial Research with Peter van Hardenberg [Idea Machines #50]
Peter van Hardenberg talks about Industrialists vs. Academics, Ink&Switch's evolution over time, the Hollywood Model, internal lab infrastru...
MACROSCIENCE with Tim Hwang [Idea Machines #49]
A conversation with Tim Hwang about historical simulations, the interaction of policy and science, analogies between research ecosystems and...
Idea Machines with Nadia Asparouhova [Idea Machines #48]
Nadia Asparouhova talks about idea machines on idea machines! Idea machines, of course, being her framework around societal organisms that t...
Institutional Experiments with Seemay Chou [Idea Machines #47]
Seemay Chou talks about the process of building a new research organization, ticks, hiring and managing entrepreneurial scientists, non-mode...
DARPA and Advanced Manufacturing with William Bonvillian [Idea Machines #46]
William Bonvillian does a deep dive about his decades of research on how DARPA works and his more recent work on advanced manufacturing. Wil...
Philanthropically Funding the Foundation of Fields with Adam Falk [Idea Machines #45]
In this conversation, Adam Falk and I talk about running research programs with impact over long timescales, creating new fields, philanthro...
Managing Mathematics with Semon Rezchikov [Idea Machines #44]
In this conversation, Semon Rezchikov and I talk about what other disciplines can learn from mathematics, creating and cultivating collabora...
Scientific Irrationality with Michael Strevens [Idea Machines #43]
Professor Michael Strevens discusses the line between scientific knowledge and everything else, the contrast between what scientists as peop...
Distributing Innovation with The VitaDAO Core Team [Idea Machines #42]
A conversation with the VitaDAO core team. VitaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization — or DAO — that focuses on enabling and fundin...
The Nature of Technology with Brain Arthur [Idea Machines #41]
Dr. Brian Arthur and I talk about how technology can be modeled as a modular and evolving system, combinatorial evolution more broadly and d...
Philosophy of Progress with Jason Crawford [Idea Machines #40]
In this Conversation, Jason Crawford and I talk about starting a nonprofit organization, changing conceptions of progress, why 26 years afte...
Fusion, Planning, Programs, and Politics with Stephen Dean [Idea Machines #39]
In this conversation, Dr. Stephen Dean talks about how he created the 1976 US fusion program plan, how it played out and the history of fusi...
Policy, TFP, and airshiPs with Eli Dourado [Idea Machines #38]
Eli Dourado on how the sausage of technology policy is made, the relationship between total factor productivity and technological progress,...
In the Realm of the Barely Feasible with Arati Prabhakar [Idea Machines #37]
In this conversation I talk to the Amazing Arati Prabhakar about using Solutions R&D to tackle big societal problems, gaps in the innovation...
Shaping Research by Changing Context with Ilan Gur [Idea Machines #36]
In this conversation I talk to Ilan Gur about what it really means for technology to "escape the lab", the power of context to shape the use...
Your Equity is a Product with Luke Constable [Idea Machines #35]
In this conversation I talk to Luke Constable about the complicated tapestry of finance, funding projects, incentives, organizational and le...
Venture Research with Donald Braben [Idea Machines #34]
In this conversation I talk to Donald Braben about his venture research initiative, peer review, and enabling the 21st century equivalents o...
Focusing on Research with Adam Marblestone [Idea Machines #33]
A conversation with Adam Marblestone about his new project - Focused Research Organizations. Focused Research Organizations (FROs) are a new...
Hanging Out in the Valley of Death with Michael Filler and Matthew Realff [Idea Machines #32]
Michael Filler and Matthew Realff discuss Fundamental Manufacturing Process innovations. We explore what they are, dig into historical examp...