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Idea Machines

by Benjamin Reinhardt
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About the show

Idea Machines is a deep dive into the systems and people that bring innovations from glimmers in someone's eye all the way to tools, processes, and ideas that can shift paradigms. We see the outputs of innovation systems everywhere but rarely dig into how they work. Idea Machines digs below the surface into crucial but often unspoken questions to explore themes of how we enable innovations today and how we could do it better tomorrow. Idea Machines is hosted by Benjamin Reinhardt.

Latest episodes

  • Building the Future, Step by Step with Ada Palmer

    September 19, 2026 · 1 hr 43 min

    A conversation with Ada Palmer about building the future with humility, the process of creating a science fiction world, and many spoiler-heavy deep dives into the world of Terra Ignota. Mentioned in this episode Books and works. Ada…

  • Speculative Technologies with Ben Reinhardt [Macroscience cross-post]

    May 27, 2024 · 30 min

    Tim Hwang turns the tables and interviews me (Ben) about Speculative Technologies and research management.

  • Industrial Research with Peter van Hardenberg [Idea Machines #50]

    February 10, 2024 · 47 min

    Peter van Hardenberg talks about Industrialists vs. Academics, Ink&Switch's evolution over time, the Hollywood Model, internal lab infrastructure, and more! Peter is the lab director and CEO of Ink&Switch, a private, creator oriented…

  • MACROSCIENCE with Tim Hwang [Idea Machines #49]

    November 27, 2023 · 57 min

    A conversation with Tim Hwang about historical simulations, the interaction of policy and science, analogies between research ecosystems and the economy, and so much more.  Topics Historical Simulations Macroscience Macro-metrics for…

  • Idea Machines with Nadia Asparouhova

    October 3, 2022 · 56 min

    Nadia Asparouhova talks about idea machines on idea machines! Idea machines, of course, being her framework around societal organisms that turn ideas into outcomes. We also talk about  the relationship between philanthropy and status…

  • Institutional Experiments with Seemay Chou

    September 1, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min

    Seemay Chou talks about the process of building a new research organization, ticks, hiring and managing entrepreneurial scientists, non-model organisms, institutional experiments and a lot more! Seemay is the co-founder and CEO of Arcadia…

  • DARPA and Advanced Manufacturing with William Bonvillian

    August 2, 2022 · 48 min

    William Bonvillian does a deep dive about his decades of research on how DARPA works and his more recent work on advanced manufacturing.  William is a Lecturer at MIT and the Senior Director of Special Projects,at MIT's Office of Digital…

  • Philanthropically Funding the Foundation of Fields with Adam Falk [Idea Machines #45]

    July 2, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min

    In this conversation, Adam Falk and I talk about running research programs with impact over long timescales, creating new fields, philanthropic science funding, and so much more.  Adam is the president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation…