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I'm Stephen Johnson and this is American Innovations.

We launched this show in 2018 to tell stories of the teamwork, competition, and surprising

moments that led to breakthroughs in our collective understanding of how the world works.

We've covered the gamut of how Americans change the status quo from the invention of

the telephone to organ transplants to drone technology.

More than three years later, we're taking a break.

This will be our last episode for a while.

If you've missed any of our more than 100 episodes, we hope you'll enjoy digging into

the archives.

Now over the course of the show, we've often looked back to the scientific and technological

advances that modernized our world.

But in our final episode of this year, we're going to look at what's next, the new frontiers

of science, medicine, and technology that will shape the next century.

Today, I'm talking with our old friend, Clive Thompson, a journalist who writes about science

and technology for the New York Times magazine, Smithsonian, and Wired, among others.

He writes regularly from medium.com.

He's also the author of coders, the making of a new tribe, and the remaking of the world.

Clive Thompson, welcome back to American Innovations.

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