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Yoel Fink on Education, Invention, and Asking Better Questions
The best ideas are not always hidden in the future.
Sometimes they are sitting right in front of us, waiting for someone to ask a better question.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Yoel Fink, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, about education, invention, advanced fibers, and why so much of technology follows the same obvious tracks.
This is not a typical conversation about robotics or automation. It is a wider look at how people learn, how researchers discover, and why stepping off a prescribed path can sometimes lead to better outcomes than following…
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