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Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: History of Science & Technology Q&A (June 1, 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:Â https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Questions include: Do you think we'll ever get to the stage of having flying cars? Is there any historical evidence? - Even now with traction control, anti-lock braking systems, automatic crash avoidance and the like, driving cars has automated "smart" safeguards nowadays. - It seems like many science discoveries or inventions happen due to some mistake or error that ultimately makes the insight or experiment work. How p...