on the theme of "What a Wonderful World!":
The media tell us life is getting worse. As usual, they miss the
big picture.This is a wonderful world…and it’s getting better!
We’re living longer. This week, Stossel talks to Sonia Arrison
who says that, because of amazing advances in medical technology,
the first person who will live to be 150 years old has already been
born. And soon 150 years will be the AVERAGE.Innovation makes our lives better. Swedish public health
professor Hans Rosling tells Stossel why. His
video that celebrates the miracle of the washing machine
has been viewed ten million times.Matt Ridley explains how “ideas having sex” is a reason the
world is getting better. Sounds inappropriate, but he’s
right!Even though our government’s regulations become more
burdensome on a daily basis, some entrepreneurs find innovative
ways around the regs. Two entrepreneurs founded Blueseed, a
boat that will sit 12 miles offshore and house foreign innovators
who don’t want to wait 35 years for a visa … but want to share
their ideas with Silicon Valley.And finally, an entrepreneur offering a reward for success says
a prize leads to better innovation than government central
planning. He’s running competitions to see who can land a robot on
the moon, who can invent a 100 mpg car, and a device that gives you
better medical diagnoses than your doctor might.
Reason runs Stossel's columns every Thursday (his latest, on
what business owners have to fear from Obamacare,
is here) and we're happy to have staffers featured regularly on
his show.
For more on Stossel, which airs on Fox Business
Thursdays at 10pm ET and several times over the weekend, go
here.
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