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    Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
    Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
    Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
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    Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last

    Written by David Edwards

    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon

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    Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs.

    Art and science are famous opposites. Contemporary innovation mostly keeps them far apart. But in this book, David Edwards―world-renowned inventor; Harvard professor of the practice of idea translation; creator of breathable insulin, edible food packaging, and digital scents―reveals that the secret to creating very new things of lasting benefit, including innovations we will need to sustain human life on the planet, lies in perceiving art and science as one.

    Here Edwards shares how he discovered a way of creating that transcends disciplines and incorporates the principles of aesthetics. He introduces us to cutting-edge artists, musicians, architects, physicists, mathematicians, engineers, chefs, choreographers, and novelists (among others) and uncovers a three-step cycle they all share in creating things that durably matter. This creator cycle looks unlike what we associate with game-changing innovation today, and aligns the most expressive art and the most revolutionary science in a radical reimagining of how we live. David Edwards and the innovators he profiles belong to an emerging grassroots renaissance flourishing in special environments that we all can make in our schools, companies and homes.

    Creating Things That Matter is a book for anyone wondering what tomorrow might be, and at last half believing that what they do can make a difference.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781721334209
    Author

    David Edwards

    David Edwards is is co-editor and co-founder of Media Lens. He is the author of Free To Be Human (1995), The Compassionate Revolution (1998), and co-author, with David Cromwell, of Guardians of Power (2006), Newspeak in the 21st Century (2009), and Propaganda Blitz: How and Why Corporate Media Distort Reality (Pluto, 2018).

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       I think that rich people's brains develop differently when they're young as their environment is so different from the one us peasants experience. To them the world is about experiencing fancy food and creating art and maybe even helping us poor plebs by inspiring us with their great art. This is the only way I can explain why books like this one exist. It's a boring list of rich and famous people the author knows, partly an autobiography with heaps of self promotion.