Slightly related: Special attention to interactions on problem-solving  (Jose Baldaia ‏@Jabaldaia)

- Ben Tremblay

Excellent talk.

Nice argument for specialization and trade unfortunately it does not touch on the negative influences of restricting information flow. It would be interesting to see hear his perspective on strong IP protection which reduces access to information.

His suggestion of ideas reproducing sexually is entertaining but I can not think of an earth example with more than two parents and ideas often drawn from many sources.

On a similar vein is Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler's book Abundance (I am enjoying the read).  They talk about Kurweil's predictions, the Singularity (area of interest to me); Kahneman and his work etc. 

Sounds like a book for my reading list, thanks!

I'm feeling less and less positive towards Ridley's book as I get further into it - his political stance is very worrying and some of his detailed arguments and conclusions are very flaky, but the core idea is still powerful and persuasive and it remains packed with fascinating insights and facts, even if the conclusions drawn from them are sometimes dubious.