{"id":182090,"date":"2024-02-06T00:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T06:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mathematical-model-connects-innovation-and-obsolescence-to-unify-insights-across-diverse-fields"},"modified":"2024-02-06T00:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T06:23:37","slug":"mathematical-model-connects-innovation-and-obsolescence-to-unify-insights-across-diverse-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mathematical-model-connects-innovation-and-obsolescence-to-unify-insights-across-diverse-fields","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical model connects innovation and obsolescence to unify insights across diverse fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematical-model-connects-innovation-and-obsolescence-to-unify-insights-across-diverse-fields3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Lewis Carroll\u2019s Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice, \u201cIt takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.\u201d The race between innovation and obsolescence is like this.<\/p>\n<p>Recent evidence about the slowing of technological and scientific progress in contrast to the accelerating epidemiological risks in a globalized world\u2014in the opposite direction\u2014indicates the importance of the relative rates of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/innovation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">innovation<\/a> and obsolescence.<\/p>\n<p>When does innovation outpace, or fail to outpace, obsolescence? Understanding this dynamic is nascent, and the way that innovation is discussed is largely fragmented across fields. Despite some qualitative efforts to bridge this gap, insights are rarely transferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Lewis Carroll\u2019s Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice, \u201cIt takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.\u201d The race between innovation and obsolescence is like this. Recent evidence about the slowing of technological and scientific progress in contrast to the accelerating epidemiological risks in a globalized world\u2014in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}