The Coronavirus Effect
Episodes
Humanity's First Invention that Changed our Species and the World - The Story of Fire
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How humans stopped relying on evolution and became the controllers of their own destiny.In this episode of 'How to Change the World,' Sam Webster Harr...
How to Rank the Impact of an Innovation
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Brexit more important than Bitcoin? How do we rank Buddhism vs TikTok?The world changes, technology advances, but what really matters and how much?...
What Blocks Human Innovation and Progress?
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Timeless lessons from the Stone Age and how to build innovation into our systems and solve global problems.For 97% of human history, we barely had any...
A New Approach To Understanding How to Change The World
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we peer into the future, sometimes the best strategy is to look back into the past. The further and deeper we look, the more comprehensive our unde...
UPDATE - How To Change The World: The history of innovation
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam is launching a new show - How to Change the World: The History of InnovationStarting from the dawn of civilization. Each series will cover an era ...
9. National Care Force
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charles ArmitageCharles Armitage is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Florence. Florence is a marketplace that connects care homes to nurses and...
8. The Care Industry
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Townsend, the co-founder of Mobilise, is on a mission to transform the way the UK's growing number of informal carers access support.James has o...
7. Where Is Technology Heading
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eamonn Carey is the Managing Director of Techstars London. He's been an entrepreneur for most of his adult life - starting several companies in Europe...
6. How Do We Have Adventures?
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I am an adventuraholic. As such being confined to one space is an unusual place to find myself.I am embracing my curious spirit and invite listeners t...
5. When Life Gives You Lemons
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AboutDame Stephanie Shirley is one of Britain's leading philanthropists and has used her life to drive positive change in the world. Shirley empowered...
4. Maintaining Empathy at a Distance
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is an author and technology researcher. We dive into her findings around human interaction online and how we lose empathy and ...
3. Black Swan - The High Impact of the Highly Unexpected
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AboutThe 'Black Swan' is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It demonstrates that unexpected events have the biggest impact on shaping the world. https:/...
2. What Is All The Panic (buying) About?
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After stores across the world first started running out of toilet paper, this quickly spread to empty shelves and epic queues as people rush to stock ...
1. An Introduction
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An short episode introducing the podcast, the aims and topics to discuss and what you can expect to be hearing over the coming episodes.Sam gives a br...