Matt Ridley is the author of The Rational Optimist. He writes books about genes, evolution, economics, environment and human society; writes a weekly column in the Times; and sits in the House of Lords.
Matt’s ‘Idea Worth Sharing’ is that the explosion of human achievement after 150,000 years, was not caused by something that happened inside our heads, but by what happened between our brains — in the cloud.
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