An Infinite Alphabet: The Laws of Knowledge

Through a series of fascinating examples, physicist and data-visualisation specialist Cesar Hidalgo shows how scientific laws of time, space and value allow us to chart how knowledge moves and spreads in the 21st century, helping us understand the emergence of hot and coldspots for scientific and economic growth and development.

Why is it that Silicon Valley in California or Zhongguancun in Beijing are such successful hubs for innovation, where other locations have failed? What sustains the exponential growth in some technologies, like computers, while we forgot how to make Polaroid film?

Cesar's book "The Infinite Alphabet and the Laws of Knowledge" will be available to purchase after the talk.

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