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Where New Industries Come From: Ben Landau-Taylor lecture

The Students··22 September 2026·32 min

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​Sober, risk-averse, rational businessmen make great captains of industry—in established industries which someone else already built. But the new industries which drive progress come from wild half-mad ideologues. This lecture covers the psychology of the men behind the major breakthroughs, from the steam engine to the large language model.