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        Dare to Invent the Future

        Dare to Invent the Future

        Dare to Invent the Future

        Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving

        by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

        ISBN: 9780262546867

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 21, 2023

        A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence.
        On the Brink of Utopia

        On the Brink of Utopia

        On the Brink of Utopia

        Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems

        by Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera

        Foreword by Stefan Hell

        ISBN: 9780262546485

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.
        Invention and Innovation

        Invention and Innovation

        Invention and Innovation

        A Brief History of Hype and Failure

        by Vaclav Smil

        ISBN: 9780262048057

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 14, 2023

        From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.
        Born in Cambridge

        Born in Cambridge

        Born in Cambridge

        400 Years of Ideas and Innovators

        by Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta

        ISBN: 9780262046800

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 3, 2022

        Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
        American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D

        American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D

        American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D

        by Eric S. Hintz

        ISBN: 9780262542586

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 17, 2021

        How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions.
        Beyond Bakelite

        Beyond Bakelite

        Beyond Bakelite

        Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention

        by Joris Mercelis

        ISBN: 9780262538695

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 17, 2020

        The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the “father of plastics.”
        How Smart Machines Think

        How Smart Machines Think

        How Smart Machines Think

        by Sean Gerrish

        Foreword by Kevin Scott

        ISBN: 9780262537971

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 22, 2019

        Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs.
        Plato and the Nerd

        Plato and the Nerd

        Plato and the Nerd

        The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology

        by Edward Ashford Lee

        ISBN: 9780262536424

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 9, 2018

        How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.
        Innovating

        Innovating

        Innovating

        A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong

        by Luis Perez-Breva

        Foreword by Edward Roberts

        ISBN: 9780262536127

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 28, 2018

        Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact.
        The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

        The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

        The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

        The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky

        by Lillian Hoddeson and Peter Garrett

        ISBN: 9780262037532

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 20, 2018

        The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.
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