Listen to "The Global Ventilator Race"

“The Great Ventilator Race” is a most excellent podcast about worldwide attempts to respond to the Covid 19 pandemic by making ventilators that will keep people breathing while their lungs recover from the virus.

You can find it on your podcast provider, and it is also here.

It’s a well told tale of hubris and a whole bunch of people finding out that some things are just hard to make and that people who have been making them for a while might have something of an inside track. I found it fascinating that large companies and very clever people were all falling foul of the same mistakes that I used to tell Imagine Cup teams off for making all those years ago. Lots of folks had plunged into making something before taking the trouble to find out if it was useful, deployable or even needed by the target audience.

Well worth a listen.