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Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: History of Science & Technology Q&A (November 30, 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: Can you give some insight into automata theory, its history and its applications up until today? - How did scientists figure out the source of the cosmic microwave radiation? - Why didn't containers become popular until Docker around 2013? It seems like they would have been very useful long before that. What did people do instead? - The idea of containers was there, but it was v...