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It\u2019s the perennial dream: build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. We go to San Jose\u2019s famed Tech Museum to learn what it takes to turn a good idea into a grand success.\nRemember the Super Soaker squirt gun? Hear how its inventor is now changing the rules for solar energy.\nWhere do good ideas come from? A Eureka moment in the bathtub? We\u2019ll find out that it doesn\u2019t happen so quickly \u2013 or easily.\nAnd finally, the life cycle of society-changing technologies, from the birth of radio to the future of the Internet.\nInventions, inventors and innovation: all part of the mix on \u201cBetter Mousetrap.\u201d\nGuests:\n\n\nSteven Johnson - Author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation\n\n\n\nLonnie Johnson - Inventor and former NASA engineer; CEO of Johnson Research and Development Company\n\n\nTim Wu - Professor of Communication Law at Columbia University and author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books)\n\n\n\nAlana Connor - Vice President Content Development, The Tech Museum, San Jose\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nOriginally released February 7, 2011\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices