Death Of Serendipity
Jan 19, 2020•27 min
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Episode description
Does our always on, instantly connected world mean that we’ve lost the job of serendipity? Can we engineer our environment to maximise the chance of good things happening to us?
Image: The Three Princes of Serendip
Things mentioned in this podcast:
- Red Dwarf - ‘Future Echoes’ https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x41k0sb
- Doing the same thing twice is more fun than you think https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/rereading-books-rewatching-movies-decisions/587416/
- The Secretary Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
- Games of Life by Karl Sigmund https://www.amazon.co.uk/Games-Life-Explorations-Evolution-Behaviour/dp/0198547838
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