WEBVTT - Three Innovations We Need Right Now 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.600 It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:15.840 from house Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.599 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Chuck Bryant 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:24.160 with his beautiful juke brug. It's still beautiful. Yeah, So Chuck, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.920 how you doing? Uh? Well? So are you? I'm pretty good? 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.520 I'm pretty good into everyone out there listening. If it 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.320 sound like I'm talking a little fast, that is because 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.760 Chuck literally has a stopwatch here to keep you from 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.920 talking to what's in this podcast? I kid you not. Yeah, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.479 in a cat of Mine tales. Yeah, we could very easily. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.239 I shouldn't say we, I could very easily traps into 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.440 I guess long windedness as a euphemism I should use yeah, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.800 Chuck says, yeah, he's his head um, and so to 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.319 combat that, Chuck has the stopwatch. So, Chuck, let's talk 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.560 about some innovations that we need and why look at 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.840 you so proud? Uh? Yeah, Josh? You know there are 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.039 the world is in trouble in some ways, and big 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.360 innovations and big innovators come along and correct things and 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.840 change all that and that's what we need, buddy, we 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.520 can We've named three here, there are many more. Yeah, agreed, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.520 And what do you think about blogging? Yeah, and thank 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.640 you for reminding me. I would like this is especially 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.360 I would like to call out to the blog and 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.920 get you folks on the Friday recap when this comes out, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.360 because we have only uh named three kind of pie 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.840 in the sky innovations that could help the world, and 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.360 there are many more. And I'd like to hear what 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.000 people have to say to Chuck. So that's the call out. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.360 Nice Chuck, So you want to get started on this? Yes, 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:46.000 you got your you got your stopwatch going? Yes, okay, alright, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.880 so Chuck, let's do teleportation. I wish we could, my goodness. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.840 So do I have you ever been on like a long, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.800 long road trip? Yeah? I like road trip. So so 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.240 on the way right, on the way back, on the 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.640 back is awful. Right. What if you could just drive 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.960 to a place, say, you know, like a subway station, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.880 which is a good idea. Uh And instead of getting 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.640 on a subway, you just go through some sort of 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.240 teleportation portal, so at a teleportation station. Nice, Yeah, they 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.799 should call it that. I think they will probably did 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.800 you on this term spend around since oh wow, you 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.040 did some extra extra research in Yes, an American writer 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.320 and paranormal investigator named Charles Fort wrote it in his 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.600 book Low for It's one of my heroes. You know 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.639 that really yeah forty times. Well, he had a book 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.000 called low within a post exclamation point at the end 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.679 l O w or l O l okay, and apparently 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.640 that's where he first used the word teleportation. Fantastic, So, yeah, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.160 that would be awesome, and it's not exactly impossible, No, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.480 it's not. Thanks to the magic of quantum physics, we 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.200 could conceivably teleport ourselves. Indeed, I guess the way that 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.120 it's starting to look more and more is like we 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.959 would be facts. Yeah, exactly. That's a good way to say. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.960 Instead of source, what what you're doing is you're recreating. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.640 You would be recreating every cell in your body and 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.000 copying it, and that first edition would have to be destroyed. Though. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.639 This one of the keys, right, that is the key 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.919 I didn't quite get to the bottom of y aside 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:20.480 from you know, very rapidly overpopulating the earth. But yeah, 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.160 I got the impression that as far as quantum mechanics goes, 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.840 you would the original would have to be destroyed before 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.200 transmission or as it was being scanned. And then basically 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:37.040 it takes these particles and atoms and everything. It doesn't 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.440 actually transport the atoms. This is this is the big distinction. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.560 Like all teleportation as far as science fiction goes, generally, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.320 UM has to do with actually physically moving the atoms 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.760 through the air and then recreating them elsewhere. Uh. Much 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.600 like images on television. Right, as you've seen Willy Wonka 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.800 Chocolate factory, right, much like that. That's not the case. 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.480 In stead, what we would need to do is basically 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:08.040 scan us what makes us us. All the information about 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.120 where you know one of the cells in your liver 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.680 is um, about where you know every your genetic makeup, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:21.080 everything for absolutely every part of you, including stuff we 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.120 haven't nailed down yet, would have to be analyzed and 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.080 then sent and then it could be recreated in the 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.400 first one was destroyed. There's a big problem with this, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:35.240 well uh, namely, we're too complex of of beings to 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.880 do that. Well. Sure, but also if you subscribe to 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:43.320 any kind of Judeo Christian or any kind of religious idea, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.120 um uh, you would have a big problem because basically 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.360 you've just been destroyed and all the information about you 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.560 has been transferred. And if you believe the soul is 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.200 some sort of if it's extant and an externality that's 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.200 not part of your body, that it's it's something beyond that, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.159 can that be recreated? Yeah that's true. But let's say 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.039 most people who are working on uh teleporting us don't 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.479 subscribe to any ideas of the sult right, Okay, so 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.039 let's just go with that assumption. Let's just say phy physiologically, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.000 what are some of the challenges. Well, they have actually 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:22.240 teleported uh atoms and UH photons. Did you know that 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.840 they've sent adams a distance of about half a meter 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.880 and they sent some photons over tens of kilometers. Yeah, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.560 pretty impressive, it is. And I know that there's one 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.359 really smart guy out there, Charles Bennett, who was a 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.320 really smart scientist. He uh he said that in principle 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.120 that teleporting humans does not actually violate any fundamental laws 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.880 of physics. No, they used to think it violated Heisenberg's 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.039 uncertainty principle because we were talking about scanning and once 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:55.480 you get down to the sub atomic quantum level, um 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.640 you're you're you're dealing with quarks, little pieces of matter 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:05.560 and um other non material stuff. Uh that when you 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.320 analyze and when you observe them, when you measure them, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.119 the the more accurately you measure them, the more likely 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.800 you are to disrupt their behavior until you can't get 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:19.360 an accurate measurement anymore. They figured out a way around this, right, Uh, 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.760 where you're talking about quantum entanglement. Yes, that is Uh. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.040 Einstein actually called that spooky action at a distance, except 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.320 he said in German, it probably sounds cooler in German, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.760 although spooky is pretty cool. Basically, it's two separate particles 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:40.040 behaving as if it's one particle, even though they're separated 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.320 by a great distance. Right, Well, they were together at 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.679 one point in time. They become entangled, like there's their superpositions, 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:50.120 their states become entangled. And then yeah, after they're separated, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.039 the behavior of one is the same as the behavior 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.440 of another, and they they can't they shouldn't be influencing 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.720 one another anymore. Right, But Bennett's that that's not even necessary. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.560 If you were to figure out how to teleport an 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.920 entire human, he said that quote, the teleported person would 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.679 end up slightly different, but not in a biologically important way. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:16.320 So well, chuck um there there are some Think about 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.520 what you just said, you're you're reproducing something that's not 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.040 biologically different. Think about your mood, the mood d'ine right now, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.960 that's all a series of chemical reactions, So we have 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.320 to analyze down to that level where else should come 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.400 out on the other end, like maybe insane or very 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.679 depressed or ready to kill. I mean, there's a lot 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.840 of information that would have to be scanned to accurately 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.120 reproduce you as you were before the scanning started. But 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:41.880 let's say we can do that, right. What What are 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.840 the benefits of teleportation? Why do we need this? And 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.600 since this is all pine in the sky and pipe 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.840 dream type of stuff, let's say we can teleport. That 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.440 would save time? Yes, time is money. How would you 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.800 love to not um commute to beam yourself to work 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.640 every day? That would be crazy. Work days would be shorter. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.680 That means you could save energy at at the workplace. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.320 I know I get a lot more work though when 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:08.440 a telecommute. Yeah, and teleporting, imagine that you could save 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.040 on you were talking about transportation of goods and jets 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.120 and big barges. Maybe if you could teleport your goods 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.160 then you wouldn't have to you know, fly things halfway 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.000 around the world. Yeah, that might be a good thing. Yeah, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.800 I think there's a lot of benefits to teleportation. What 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.840 else you got, that's all? You don't have some Brady 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:32.720 bunch as any uh plotline that you can dream up here? No, no, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.280 because the original is destroyed. That's where all the comedy lives. Yeah, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.559 you're right, yeah, when there's duplicity or multiplicity, except there 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.400 wasn't that much comedy there. Yeah, Michael Keaton Wolf. Yeah. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.960 So Chuck, um, pressure, stop watch, let's clear it out again. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.160 Let's clear it out. So, I mean, trust me, folks, 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.520 we could do an hour on teleportation. But we could, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.640 but we just stopped making sense after a little while. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.360 Next because you couldn't understand us, but because we're dumb. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.560 So what's the number two? Josh ready? Yes, okay? Number 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:05.680 two is a universal language? Chuck, consider this, how much conflict, war, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:12.720 misunderstanding and just general strife, nationalism, isolationism, fascism, all of 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.319 this stuff, How much of it is the result of 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:20.679 this unphysical border we call language. Right, They say that 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:26.080 the Devil's greatest creation was language. Really yeah, miscommunication, absolutely, dude. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.520 And you know what, you're right, if there was an 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.520 international language, if everyone spoke the same language, I don't 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.319 think it would make us some big you know, it 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.880 would make us all the same. So lay thot years 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.800 a rest folks. No, most of the people I've I've 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.040 read who are talking and thinking about universal language is 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.120 saying like, this is not meant to supplant native languages. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.760 It's just you know, if you're at home, you're let's 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.800 say you're in America, you're speaking English like Chuck and 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.720 I speak English to one another. But if we went 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.520 to give a seminar on podcasting in Norway, we would 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.000 use the international language. Interesting you bring up Norway because 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.040 some folks say that Norwegian might be a good start. Well, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.199 they used to, and they used to think that nineteen eleven. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.120 At least that's true. Yeah, go ahead. Some people have 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.320 thought about this over the years and they think that, uh, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.160 you should probably create a new language with another language 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.959 is a basis. But it probably shouldn't be one of 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.480 the big boys either, because it would give that that 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.839 nation too much of a leg up. Oh yeah, you 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.800 said from now on English is the universal language. Everyone 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.839 who speaks English should be like, damn straight, yeah, yeah, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.959 you'd have to create your own language if you want 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.959 a universal language. And I know you're dying to talk 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.280 about Esperanto, Chuck. I had only vaguely heard of Esperanto 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.440 before and didn't really know the nuts and bolts of it. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.680 But um, actually Ben Bolan, the creator of one of 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.680 our soon to be released podcasts, a conspiracy podcast called 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.520 Stuff They Don't Want You To Know It. Yeah, looking 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.040 forward to it. Um, he was telling me about Esperanto 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.080 and basically, in the nineteenth century, a guy named L. L. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.920 Zamenhoff came up with this idea that we need a 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.160 universal language that would promote tolerance and quality, that kind 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.720 of thing, avoid war again specifically, I think he said 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.079 that was one of his aims. And yeah, he was 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.640 definitely a pacifist. You know. He also tried to come 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.920 up with a um uh, neutral religion that's all that 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:22.840 called Hamaronism. Maybe that's why I didn't take something all 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.959 right now, I guess. But he was twenty seven, he 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.600 was at the tender age of twenty seven, and he 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.800 created a universal language. He did and basically it sounds 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.920 a lot like it's a romance language kind of it's 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.800 kind of like a broken romance language. Yeah, it's it's 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.680 independent in and of itself. So while he did borrow 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.839 from others, they say it's they don't describe it as 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.520 a as a mix, like a potpourri of other languages 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.840 just mixed together right now. They it's structurally similar to 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.000 um non European languages than European ones. I mean, it's 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.640 very much phonetic, and it's it's spelled the way it 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.079 sounds supposed to be pretty easy, very easy. There's the 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.440 sixteen rules of Grammar and pronunciation to it, and that's it. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.560 Because I mean, you think about English, you know you've 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.840 got like good, better, best, Where the hell did better 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.520 and best come from? We started out with good, you know, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.559 like where does that come from? And apparently English is 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.760 one of the most difficult languages to learn that. Yeah, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.680 I would say so, because of all the little problems 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.120 like that. So I think what Zomanoff was on the 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.440 trail of it. I think anybody has created a universal 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.400 language is to get away with all the get get 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.640 rid of all the all the foibles, the weird things 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:35.920 that make a dialect or language, so unique inconsistencies. One 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.080 of the other problems is is that's actually a structural approach. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.240 There's also a symbolic approach. Yeah, I like that one. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.360 The symbolic approach is like we call mother mother for 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.280 no good reason. It's a symbolic word, you know, it's 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.920 not like the word cuckoo, where you know, cuckoo is 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.760 the sound that a cuckoo bird makes. That's very structural. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:03.599 But this, this symbolic words probably have even more difficulties 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.640 than a universal language um that was built structurally. Because 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.800 what a language is is it's a world view of 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.400 a culture the people who share that language. Right, So 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.760 how do you get the entire world to agree on 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.559 you know, the meaning of mother, right? Well? Mother is 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.400 probably an easy one. But let's say the meaning of happiness. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.319 Let's pick on happiness, right, Well, you can't. That's the problem, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.720 and that's probably why there never will be a universal language. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.120 That's not necessarily true. Also, I think that most I 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.840 think every single language universal language attempt and there's been some. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:44.120 Did you read about idiom neutral Russian one that sounded 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.319 like it got pretty close? Wow, what do you mean 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.320 by clothes? Solo than Esperanto. Two million people speak Esperanto today, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.600 That is true. Have you been on a learning It's 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.320 a website for dedicated to teaching Esperanto. It's got the 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.079 tutorials and everything in there, so if you want to 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.920 learn Esperanto. And Chuck is right, there is actually a 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:09.680 thriving little community of Esperanto speakers. And there's also two 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.520 movies that have been shot entirely in Esperanto. We're gonna 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.960 talk about one. What I was feeling. Johnny Depp did 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.200 one of him? No? No, no, uh, Bill Shatner, Oh yeah, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:25.040 that's right. There is a nineteen movie called Incubus, and 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.680 the whole thing is filmed entirely in Esperanto. William Shatner 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.880 speaks Esperanto, or at least he spoke the lines from 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.400 that movie. Yeah. No, it rang a bell that I 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.520 heard he was he learned it. Yeah, he knows esperanto. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.720 You know, worked with sat Did he speak Esperanto? TI like, 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.240 Oh my god, that explains so much. I just thought 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.400 he was having a stroke. He's a nice guy though. Yeah, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.240 he's a little puffy, sure, but it was for a 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.360 TV commercial. He was he was into it. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.920 Like he really gave it his bringing, every bring, everything 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.280 he did. I was impressed because sometimes commercial actors are 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.720 kind of like, go through the motions, we'll chuck, let's 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.480 talk about it. What's the uh what? What's What are 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.400 the benefits of universal language besides war avoidance or anything 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.880 like that. I would say economically, it would be easier 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.960 to communicate and negotiate contracts and uh broker deals and 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.760 trade and stuff like that with you. Oh, definitely, And 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.200 I think we need it. We're becoming more and more globalized. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.640 We're interacting with one another more and more. You basically 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.480 can't be an isolated country anymonger if you want to 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.040 stay afloat, it would save time. Plus, also, think about science, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.280 I mean, why does science use Latin. It's an agreed 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.080 upon universal language. What if there was an uh, there 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.520 was a real universal language that scientists could more easily 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.560 communicate their ideas with one another their findings. Well, yeah, 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.560 and I saw that um in one of the articles 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.400 we read for this. Some some of the old school 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.320 Russian scientists used to not like to have to publish 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.000 in German, which I think at the time was what 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.320 most German and French and German and French, and then 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.560 a lot of ts for you Russian. Yeah, and a 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.160 lot of students either um today have to read these 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.400 things in a translated form that may not be quite 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.560 accurate or you know, not read it at all. And 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.200 time check you one to go into number three? Yes, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:13.880 to clear out your your stopwatch there. Okay, all right, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:18.120 you're ready and go go. This one is Chuck's favorite one. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.280 He picked this one. Are we ready? Yeah? Okay, Chuck 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.560 picked this one. I think it's a good idea to Chuck. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.880 What is the third innovation that we need right now? 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:31.560 Innovator is what we need? We need Chuck, just spun it. Yeah, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.120 we need a human, we need another Einstein, we need 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:39.240 another Newton, we need another Tesla to come along, just 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:44.080 not another Edison. Yeah, and Josh, some people might say, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.960 when it comes to innovators, you're probably thinking in the 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.200 world of science, which is appropriate, and uh, a renaissance 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.120 scientist maybe where you need to to start your search. Sure, Chuck, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.600 we found this article about renaissance scientists and how actually 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.880 in the United States and the higher educational system that 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.600 the cards are stacked against any of these people actually 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.840 being produced that very much that we have to just 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.960 basically hope that one comes along, and if it does, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.600 it's gonna be a total fluke, you know, because the 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.960 idea is that in order to be a true innovator, Uh, 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.720 then you have to be a whole brain scientist, definitely. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.880 And the graduate system that we have today, they said, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.280 the undergraduate system does a pretty good job of it. Well, yeah, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.600 I just think about all the different kinds of classes, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.840 the core classes, and then you know, I took biology 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:34.560 for no good reason. Statistics I hated stats. Oh it's awful. Uh. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.600 But the whole brain thinkers are the ones that have 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.880 the more well rounded approach. So not only are they 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.360 are they a brilliant a physics mind, but they can 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.480 understand the human side of maybe how to apply that, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.320 and that's what's missing a lot of times. Right. So 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.359 Mills and no Tino, I think wrote this this, this 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.160 opinion piece we found in Forbes. Um that basically you're saying, like, yes, yes, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.879 undergrad we have it. It's great. Same generally with high school, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.359 middle school, grade school, UM, kids are exp oose to 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:04.000 all these different fields of study. The problem is it's 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.800 geared generally towards funneling them one way or another. And 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.159 this becomes most evident when you get to grad school 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.639 big time, where if you're a doctoral student and you 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.360 need money, you better come up with a a an 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:21.680 incredibly specific, unique and specific idea or field of research 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.120 that you're going to go into. It's all geared towards that. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.440 And like you said that, as you as you go 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.399 forward an education, the path gets narrower and narrower until 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.560 you're literally, yeah to where you may be researching one 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.840 thing for your career and maybe you'll come up with innovation, innovation, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.480 that way to change the world. But my money is 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.840 on a whole brain thinker. Well, yeah, or at least 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.440 somebody who can take all these various fields of research 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.560 or all this various research data and put it all together, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.840 because research is just research until you apply it. So, Chuck, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.879 is there anybody on the horizon? Is there anybody we 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.520 should be keeping an eye on? May who? There's a few? 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.119 I know some people might say the first answer that 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.199 comes to my via Stephen Hawking, but did a little research. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.960 And while Hawking is no slouch, there are some in 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.119 the physics community that think Hawking gets a lot of 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.800 attention because he's generated a lot of attention through his 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.240 books and uh maybe through his disability has garnered a 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.760 lot of attention. So certainly not to knock anything he's done, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.160 but within the physics community, I don't know if he's 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:27.480 as high on the list of some of these other 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:31.640 guys and gals. Guys and gals, I love that there's 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.800 so much smarter than I. I'm calling him guys and gals, 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.800 these dudes and chicks. Ed Whitton is one of them. Okay, 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:42.160 you ever heard of Ed? I He is a physicist, 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.160 specifically a mathematical physicist, and studies at Princeton. He's gotten 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.040 the MacArthur Genius Grant. He's won the Fields Medal, which 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.600 is the highest uh medal or honor you can get 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.600 in math. So he's he's he's been called the next 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.760 Isaac Newton. But he works with theory, which I know 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.800 you're you're not a big fan of. I have one 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.560 word about string theory? What's that? Boo boo? Yeah? So 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.400 he's up there. And then there's a guy, a dude 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.520 named Murray gell Man. Have you heard of him? Tell 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.240 us about him? Okay? Uh MGM is I like to 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.320 call him. He's a prominent scientist and once again he 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:24.159 won the Nobel Prize in Physics in nineteen nine for 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.159 his work with the theory of elementary particles. And he 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.400 is the one that came up with cork the quirk. 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.760 So he's no slouch. No, he's not a slouch. I mean, 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.280 to predict the existence of a theoretical particle and then 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.640 have it confirmed. Not a pretty smart guy. And then 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.800 you know, some people might say folks like Bill Gates, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.960 who uh, he's not a physicist or a mathematician. But 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.800 he has a high emotional intellect, a very high emotional 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.320 intact and ellect, and a lot of money and a 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.080 true visionary and a guy that likes to spread his 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.000 money around to good causes nowadays. So I don't know 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.600 what got into him, or if he was always this 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.919 way and he was just really focused on Microsoft, but 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.680 I gotta tell you, I like this repackaged Bill Gates. Yeah, 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.240 he's very generous guy. Apparently more than half his fortune 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.600 he's invested outside of Microsoft. It's fantastic. So if you're 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:13.680 talking about an innovator, I mean, you can only really 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:15.639 do good if you're if you're trying to help your 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.040 fellow man, right, well, yeah, or if it's a happy 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:24.600 byproduct of your evil deeds like Oppenheimer. No, that's the 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.680 reverse of that. So, Chuck, there's three innovations. You said 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.880 we could do a lot more. I'm kind of glad 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:34.400 we did. But uh, I am interested as well. Thank 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.440 you for turning off the stop by. I too am 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.960 interested to see what our listeners who go through to 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:42.040 the blogs think too. There's certainly some uh. I mean, 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:46.040 we were talking if we were just on pipe dream time, 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.959 like a food pill where you could just drop some 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:51.359 water on it would create a meal. Sadly, that was 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.480 one that we considered talking about, right, and he said 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.120 it's called the vitamin, and I felt kind of stupid. Yeah, 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.760 so you know we're not talking about which jetson type 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:05.400 of stuff. I mean real attainable things like teleportation. Yeah, 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:09.240 it's right there, right there. It's facing people so who 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:13.560 all speak the same language Esperanto and Chuck, I guess 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:18.639 it's time for a listener mail, right. Indeed, Yes, Josh, 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.680