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History is defined by what happens after a great invention

“A-ha!” moments make history but end up for naught without follow-through. Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why, when the U.S. is a world leader in Nobel Prizes in science and technology, we still lag behind in the implementation of innovation. His article is called “The Eureka Theory of History Is Wrong.”