Second chance saloon: the power of old ideas - podcast
by Ian Sample, Iain Chambers and Steven Poole from on (#1HFNR)
Why do ideas discarded for centuries, like electric cars, return to the cutting edge of science and technology?
Steven Poole's new book Rethink shows what we can learn by considering obsolete ideas from a new perspective, drawing on examples from military strategy and psychotherapy to chess and morphic resonance.
Ideas given a second chance include electric cars, panpsychism, and teleology.
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