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Dare to Invent the Future
Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving
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
Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems
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
A Brief History of Hype and Failure
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
400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
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
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
Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
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
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
The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
ISBN: 9780262536424
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 9, 2018
How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.
Innovating
A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong
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 Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
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.
Dare to Invent the Future
Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving
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
Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems
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
A Brief History of Hype and Failure
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
400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
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
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
Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
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
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
The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
ISBN: 9780262536424
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 9, 2018
How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.
Innovating
A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong
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 Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
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.