The Plimsoll Line and ideas over technology (10-minute talk)
Mar 27, 2013•8 min
Episode description
100 years ago ships in England were being sunk for money. Hundreds of people were dying. Enter Samuel Plimsoll; champion of the common man. His mark, a painted circle with a line through it, persists on ships today. Showing that idea driven solutions, that solve problems, outlast technologically driven ones.