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Ideas Aren't Everything: Hubris

​Some ideas are best left on the cutting room floor. A key to invention is knowing when to quit

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The creation myth

Technology is not destroying creativity, but democratising the tools of creation. This is a good thing, even if the results aren't always art

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How to invent a musical instrument

New technology yields new sounds, yet the instruments we play today are largely indebted to the past. So who's trying to make new ones?

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The junk playground where children run with scissors

​This New York playground is teaching kids –  and their parents – the value of independence, extreme creativity and saying yes to splinters

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Ideas Aren't Everything: Paranoia

Promising inventions often get derailed - Rhodri Marsden's new series looks at how this happens. Part one: paranoia

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Dance moves: The first deejays

Charting periods of innovation in dance music: 1970s Jamaica rebels against dub with the freestyling deejays of dancehall, and pre-empts hip-hop

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The War on Cash

Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe our cashless future is inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia says Brett Scott, and it's time to fight back​

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To innovate, think like Robespierre, Socrates and the Bolsheviks

Short List: Barn raising has been cited by the Harvard Business Review as this season's must-have idea for innovators. What else from the ash heap of history could point the way to the future?

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Thinking ahead

With consumers overwhelmed by choice, machines may soon choose and take action on their behalf

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Flipping Point

At the 1968 Olympics, Dick Fosbury revolutionised the high jump. Sporting progress is often incremental, but occasionally athletes come along and try something completely different