"It's ultimately an outgrowth of philosophy [...] And so there's this heavy focus on novelty. There's this heavy focus on, 'Oh, what's interesting?' [...] It's not well suited for what I would call invention or the creation of new useful technologies where it doesn't matter how new the idea is."
~ Ben Reinhardt explains why academia is beholden to the new...
Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/speculative-technologies-ep-248
Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KOKVnGJAg&t=2426s
