Innovation Stagnation?

Oxide and Friends · Feb 7, 2024 · 1h · transcript

Sometimes Bryan gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to Adam and the Oxide Friends. This was a well-crafted troll: is innovation slowing? Are the most interesting problems solved. In a word: no. For many more words, listen in!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Steve Klabnik.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

The Tweet

Nate Silver

Secularity

Secular stagnation

Angela Collier: physics progress in the last 70 years?

Haber process

CRISPR gene editing

Book: Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

Leonhard Euler

Dijkstra's algorithm

Raft…