Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Major turning points are what physicists term ‘phase transitions’, as when water turns into ice (Arthur 2013: 10–11; Nicolis 1995). This is ‘uncertainty’, not mere risk, and such transitions are enormously difficult to ‘predict’. Climate scientists debate whether a phase transition will occur if global temperatures increase by a few degrees over th

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Bell Labs as the first true think tank and it had many of the characteristics of the growing and thriving organization, whose benefits ripple out and affect adjacent domains all over the world. They had a flexible hierarchy that allowed people to be creative and put those ideas into practice. The Labs leadership put together theoretical thinkers, m... See more