https://youtu.be/XUAIIQFoufs?t=106 - By Matt Ridely

  • Where does innovation come from?
  • How does it happen?
  • Why does it happen to us and not to rabbits or rocks?
  • What drives it?

Innovation is about combining and recombining of ideas - that virtually every technology we can think of is a combination of other technologies. And so its just a matter of combining technologies in different combinations to come up with new technologies. And there is an infinite number of ways we can do that. Because I am not talking about objects. I am talking about rules, ideas. And that is the fuel that drives innovation. And thats why innovation happens where people can meet and exchange ideas.