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The Lightbulb Moment
S1, EP9 "Interstate: How the Interstate Connected and Divided America"Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system was the biggest infrastructure project of its time, a bold plan to connect all corners of America and boost the post-war economy, but it also ended up deepening the divide between rich and poor.
The Lightbulb Moment
S1, EP10 "Edison: How Edison Reinvented Invention"Edison pioneered the world's first research and development center in Menlo Park and worked with a group of experimenters to methodically zero in on the holy grail of electric light.
The Tulip Bubble
The burst of the enormous tulip bubble in 1637 Netherlands serves as reminder of how quickly financial holdings and futures can rise or drop.
The Lightbulb Moment
S1, EP11 "Like Button: The Unintended Consenquences of the Facebook Like Button"When first presented with the like button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried that a quick thumbs up or down would discourage more meaningful online interaction but eventually his team changed his mind and transformed the world.
The Lightbulb Moment
S1, EP2 "Cubicle: How the Cubicle Became Universally Hated"The Cubicle was originally designed to set workers free; a futuristic designer named Robert Propst dreamed up the cubicle as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia that would unleash the modern knowledge worker's vast untapped potential.
The Lightbulb Moment
S1, EP3 "Barcode: How the Barcode Shaped Our Modern Economy"Barcodes have radically changed global commerce, helping fuel the rise of everything from massive companies like Walmart to world powers like China, and it all started with a man daydreaming on a beach in 1949.
The Lightbulb Moment
S1, EP4 "Florida: How Real Estate Rogues Invented Florida as We Know It"Florida wasn't always the Sunshine State; in the 1920s, an army of real estate boosters set out to redefine Florida from an economic backwater to a ritzy vacation destination, sparking a land boom the likes of which America had never seen before.
The Lightbulb Moment
S1, EP5 "Mauve: The Fake Color That Made Our Modern World"In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue; Mauve takes over the fashion industry, make food look more appetizing, and enable stunning advances in medicine.
