80,000 Hours: Protecting ideas that matter, from the Spitfire to the knockout mouse

Calendar
When:
February 4, 2014 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2014-02-04T19:30:00+00:00
2014-02-04T21:00:00+00:00
Where:
Merton, TS Elliot Lecture Theatre
Merton College
University of Oxford, Merton St, Oxford
OX1 4JD
Cost:
Free
Contact:
80,000 hours Oxford
Education Future Technology

Important technologies often begin by looking like crazy long-shots. Yet today’s long shots are more expensive and more complex than ever before. Tim Harford examines the evidence that technological progress may actually be slowing down, and using both the latest economic research and some unforgettable tales of creativity against the odds, he asks: What can we do in our careers to create and protect ideas that matter?

Tim is the best-selling author of the Undercover Economist, a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and a presenter on Radio 4.

80,000 Hours is an Oxford-affiliated charity, which aims to identify the best strategies and opportunities you can take with your career to help solve the world’s most pressing problems.