Name: Edward Tenner: Consequências não-intencionais
Uploaded: 2011-09-06T14:37:23Z
Duration: 15 min 53 s
Description: Toda nova invenção transforma o mundo – de forma intencional e inesperada. O historiador Edward Tenner nos conta histórias ilustrando a subestimada lacuna entre nossa capacidade de inovar e nossa capacidade de prever as consequências.

Toda nova invenção transforma o mundo – de forma intencional e inesperada. O historiador Edward Tenner nos conta histórias ilustrando a subestimada lacuna entre nossa capacidade de inovar e nossa capacidade de prever as consequências.

Edward Tenner: Consequências não-intencionais

Unintended consequences are the engine of progress, often bringing surprising benefits from even the worst disasters. Agricultural revolutions, the invention of penicillin, and the rise of dry photocopying all sprang from unexpected, sometimes negative events. History shows that our ability to predict outcomes lags behind our power to innovate. Learning from accidents and pooling knowledge during crises have repeatedly sparked breakthroughs that shape society.