2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

How to Fly a Horse

Sunday, March 15
1:30PM - 1:50PM

Austin Convention Center
Ballroom G
Austin Convention Center

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As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it. From the crystallographer’s laboratory where the secrets of DNA were first revealed by a long forgotten woman, to the electromagnetic chamber where the stealth bomber was born on a twenty-five-cent bet, to the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers set out to “fly a horse,” Ashton showcases the seemingly unremarkable individuals, gradual steps, multiple failures, and countless ordinary and usually uncredited acts that lead to our most astounding breakthroughs.

Creators, he shows, apply in particular ways the everyday, ordinary thinking of which we are all...

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Presenters

Kevin Ashton

Author

Penguin Random House LLC

Details

Access
Interactive Badge, Gold Badge, Platinum Badge
Type
Book Reading
Theme
Art, Science and Inspiration
Level
Intermediate

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