Sleeping Beauties
Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up. From dark matter and continental drift to solar panels, Bach, Vermeer and Melville, David Byrne follows breakthroughs that faded out and later came roaring back. Why did they fall asleep? How did they wake? A reckoning with creativity, culture and how not to be blind to the next great thing.
A Weekly Reads pick. Ideas across centuries and continents, so no single Atlas pin.
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