The November/December 2012 issue of MIT Technology Review issue focused on the question of why we as a society seem to have lost our appetite for solving big problems. That question was also the subject of the March 13, 2013 MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Innovation Series event— a panel discussion led off by the person who wrote that cover story — Jason Pontin, the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review and Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum. In this interview, recorded a week before the event, we asked Jason to give us some of his thinking about why he selected this topic. (Originally released 3/7/13)