Close Modal What’s Revolutionary Today? How the American Revolution Inspired Boston’s Innovation Economy2025 is the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolution. What was Boston like then? What elements of the Revolution and Revolutionaries’ thinking helped shape the city into what it is today? Join us for an evening of conversation, community, and interactive demonstrations as we examine the influence of the American Revolution on the innovation economy of current-day Boston and ask— what’s revolutionary today?Featuring Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe contributor and co-designer of Boston’s Innovation Trail, in conversation with Bob Allison, professor of history, language, and global culture at Suffolk University, including live demos of revolutionary innovation from the robotics, climate tech, life sciences, and accessibility sectors plus innovation trivia and more!This program is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Register for the Event Date and Time Wednesday, April 9 | 7:00 pm Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Register for the Event Date and Time Wednesday, April 9 | 7:00 pm Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Join us for an evening of conversation, community, and interactive demonstrations as we examine the influence of the American Revolution on the innovation economy of current-day Boston and ask— what’s revolutionary today?Featuring Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe contributor and co-designer of Boston’s Innovation Trail, in conversation with Bob Allison, professor of history, language, and global culture at Suffolk University, including live demos of revolutionary innovation from the robotics, climate tech, life sciences, and accessibility sectors plus innovation trivia and more!This program is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Featuring Image Scott Kirsner Scott Kirsner has spent two decades as a business journalist and contributing editor at the Boston Globe, Wired Magazine, Fast Company, Variety, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and other publications. Scott is the author of several books on innovation and technology, including a collaboration with George Lucas, Inventing the Movies, which explores the challenge of bringing new ideas to a century-old, change-resistant industry: Hollywood. His most recent book is Innovation Economy: True Stories of Startups, Flame-Outs, and Inventing the Future in New England.Scott has appeared on NBC's Today Show, Yahoo Finance, CNN, NPR's Science Friday, the Discovery Channel, and WBUR's Radio Boston. His latest project is co-founding a new organization, The Innovation Trail of Greater Boston. You can follow it on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn: @BostonInnoTrail, or learn more at theinnovationtrail.org Image Robert Allison Robert Allison is a Professor of History at Suffolk University in Boston, and also teaches at the Harvard Extension School. His main interest in teaching and writing is American history. In addition to being president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, he chairs Revolution 250, a consortium of organizations planning commemorations of the Revolution's 250th anniversaries, is a life-trustee of the USS CONSTITUTION Museum, and is involved with other history organizations. Allison is the author of several books about Boston and the American Revolution, including The American Revolution: A Concise History, and A Short History of Boston. In partnership with Image
