The Ever-Shrinking Transistor and the Invention of Google The developments of the search engine and social media follow the usual path of innovation: incremental, gradual, serendipitous, and inexorable; few eureka moments or sudden breakthroughs. Matt Ridley 15 Jun 2020 · 14 min read
PODCAST 82: Matt Ridley talks about the Coronavirus Pandemic and His New Book How Innovation Works Science writer Matt Ridley talks to Toby Young about coronavirus, the prospects of finding a vaccine within the next 18 months, and his new book How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy, and the Saving of Time. He recently wrote for Quillette about GM crops. Quillette / Matt Ridley / Toby Young 17 Mar 2020 · 1 min read
GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace. Matt Ridley 1 Dec 2019 · 11 min read
