EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)
Freakonomics Radio16 Syys 2024

EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)

We revisit an episode from 2016 that asks: Has our culture’s obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that things also need to be taken care of?

  • SOURCES:
    • Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
    • Ruth Schwartz Cowan, professor emerita of history and sociology of science at University of Pennsylvania.
    • Edward Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard University.
    • Chris Lacinak, founder and president of AVPreserve.
    • Andrew Russell, provost of SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
    • Lawrence Summers, professor and president emeritus of Harvard University; former Secretary of the Treasury and former director of the National Economic Council.
    • Lee Vinsel, professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech.


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