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Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 16, 2023)
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 know the history of the invention of OCR (Optical character recognition)? - With recent developments, can you talk about the history of theories of extraterrestrial life and search for extraterrestrial life? - Who do you think is the most undervalued scientist in the last 100 years? Someone who has contributed a great deal to society, but has largely gone unnoticed by t...