A short history of the innovations that have shaped human progress
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Episode: A short history of the innovations that have shaped human progress
Pub date: 2026-02-20
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We rarely stop to wonder who invented the wheel, the alphabet or the printing press but so much of what feels fundamental to daily life was once a bold, untested idea, and someone had to think it up first.
In The Shortest History of Innovation, Andrew Leigh traces that long thread of human ingenuity from ancient breakthroughs through to the…
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