Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> It’s the perennial dream: build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. We go to San Jose’s famed Tech Museum to learn what it takes to turn a good idea into a grand success.</p> <p>Remember the Super Soaker squirt gun? Hear how its inventor is now changing the rules for solar energy. </p> <p>Where do good ideas come from? A Eureka moment in the bathtub? We’ll find out that it doesn’t happen so quickly – or easily.</p> <p>And finally, the life cycle of society-changing technologies, from the birth of radio to the future of the Internet. </p> <p>Inventions, inventors and innovation: all part of the mix on “Better Mousetrap.”</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/">Steven Johnson</a></strong> – Author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594487715?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1594487715">Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1594487715" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.johnsonrd.com/ie/lj/ljprofile.html">Lonnie Johnson</a></strong> – Inventor and former <span class="caps">NASA</span> engineer; <span class="caps">CEO</span> of Johnson Research and Development Company</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://timwu.org/">Tim Wu</a></strong> – Professor of Communication Law at Columbia University and author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307269930?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307269930">The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307269930" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.thetech.org/about/press/index.php?id=236">Alana Connor</a></strong> – Vice President Content Development, The Tech Museum, San Jose</li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-una-mejor-ratonera/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>Originally released February 7, 2011</p>
