How to Change the World: The History & Future of Innovation

If you want to change the world, you need to dissect the past to build a blueprint for tomorrow.

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May 19, 2025

How to Change the World in 2 minutes

About How to change the world where we explore the history and future of invention, innovation, and era defining technology

May 20, 2025

Introduction to How to Change the World - Dissecting the History & Future of Innovation

About the show How to change the world where we explore the history and future of invention, innovation, and era defining technology

May 21, 2025

[Stone Age] - Innovation Locks: The 5 Progress Blockers for 97% of Human History

Timeless lessons on what really creates human progress

June 4, 2025

Innovation Richter Scale: How Much Do Technology and Ideas Change World History?

What really matters to humanity and what is just noise? How to rank the impact of a given invention, innovation or technology on humanity and the wider world.

June 27, 2025

[~1.8 Mya] - Fire: The Innovation that Forged Humanity and Sparked World Domination

How fire changed our species, let us take over the world and drove the industrial revolution

July 9, 2025

The Laws of Nature: 3 Rules Governing the Success of Any Organism, Idea & Technology

The three laws of biology presented in the lessons of history that determine the survival of inventions, movements and populations

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