Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)
Description: Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Questions include: What happened with the computer during WWII? - The Imitation Game is a great movie about computers in World War 2. - How important are Nobel Prizes? Are there any scandalous omissions? - It is taxable income. - Some of the physics prizes have been a bit random. - Penzias and Wilson more or less accidentally discovered the CMB, but Gamov predicted it and got nothing (I think). - Thank...