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Curious Minds: Innovation

8 episodes 94%4KCC

Where bold ideas, hard lessons, and future-shaping technologies collide.

Explore what innovation really means, from simple breakthroughs to transformative advances in genetics, wireless connectivity, and self-driving cars. Through candid reflections on failure, tinkering, and discovery, this series reveals how new ideas take shape and why understanding that process is worth diving into.

Episode guide

8 episodes
1
1Creativity And Innovation
Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist and leading particle and cosmology expert, looks at the concept of innovation.
1 min
2
2Entrepreneurship In America
Ted Leonsis, entrepreneur and author, discusses the history of the United States as a place for opportunity and innovation.
3 min
3
3How is Failure Important?
Bran Ferren, design and technology innovator, explains the need to fail in order to drive innovation.
1 min
4
4Is The Internet Fueling Innovation?
Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist," describes the net's impact on innovation.
1 min
5
5The Next Revolutionary Invention
Bran Ferren, design and technology innovator, discusses the realm of possibilities that self-driving cars will bring into our lives.
4 min
6
6What Excites You About the Future?
Bran Ferren, design and technology innovator, discusses the power of technology and how it can reshape our world.
1 min
7
7What Is Innovation?
Ted Leonsis, entrepreneur and venture capital investor, reviews the elements of innovation.
2 min
8
8Playing With The System
John Seely Brown, Technology and Research expert, explains that failure could be one of the key steps in the process of innovation.
1 min
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