On Tech and Innovation

Edward Tenner’s The Efficiency Paradox questions our ingrained assumptions about efficiency, persuasively showing how relying on the algorithms of digital platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts. In Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last, David Edwards—world-renowned inventor and Harvard professor of the practice of idea translation—reveals that the secret to creating things of lasting benefit, including innovations we will need to sustain human life on the planet, lies in perceiving art and science as one.

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