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Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: History of Science & Technology Q&A (April 3, 2024)
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: Is there a directionality to science and technology? - Has anyone sort of applied the hacker mentality to the Antikythera mechanism to figure out what else you could use it for? What kind of uses could a time-traveling von Neumann figure out? - What is the likelihood that ancient tech we've discovered had vastly different uses than what we believe? - Southeast Asia is terrible...