Innovation in the Service of Society

Dan Breznitz, author of the book Innovation in Real Places, Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, and professor of public policy at the University of Toronto, talks about how innovation ought to be guided if it is to be successful in addressing our most pressing problems.

[AudioPervert]

inside a self-serving late-stage civilisation... Bravo!

[oscarwindham]

The answer to our financial and economic problems as a nation has always been there and for the last decade or so this answer has been staring us in the face and yet the majority is refusing to acknowledge this reality. It is monetizing and or quantitative easing which, for all practical purposes, are both the same.

[MarkDemarest]

​Much of the "How?" is outlined in Jeremy Rifkin's "Third Industrial Revolution" (on YouTube)

[hakoveno]

Here in California I see real estate extremely out of touch. They are knocking down perfectly good structures to build newly designed condos and houses that nobody can afford . Empty houses and condo buildings everywhere and yet they still develope. Very wasteful. Sorry if that is off topic, but I think the investors with money in the game are still following a model of making money off the lower class that is broken, because we have nothing left to give them. If they built complimentary housing for homeless that would be different, but these newly built mansions stand at 3+ million for years without buyers. Waste of time, energy, resources.

[JollyRoger]

Very telling when you disable comments on some videos and not others...

[throwawayidiot]

The only type of economics that matters is political economics. What is the use for society to have a bunch of hallucinated technocrat economists who don't give a flying F if an efficient free market doesn't say anything about the quality of life, and an efficient free market also doesn't care if we are driving climate change through the roof. These people are basically useless: "yeah, enjoy great GDP when we are at +5C dying en masse".

What is that? A Pigovian tax will fix the externality problem?? Oh f* me! Why didn't I think about that? It is almost like the power structures that could actually do anything about externalities are dominated by those who don't want to limit themselves.

Oh, right, that is a problem for future humankind, not for us.