Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about the history of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram

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00:00 Start Stream
00:13 How far back does the idea of discrete space go, and who first took it seriously as a scientific possibility?
44:00 Do you see your blog as a way of documenting the "behind the scenes" history of your work?
46:05 What makes someone worth writing about historically?
53:23 Are there conversations you had that you now wish had been recorded?
56:10 Have you seen a field rewrite its own history while you were part of it?
1:02:30 If you weren't a scientist, do you think you would be a historian?
1:03:43 Will you write about your own history book? Or leave that to someone else?
1:07:30 Did you ever meet Irving Finkel, the old writings (like cuneiform) 'master'?
1:11:34 Did you ever meet Karl Popper?
1:15:22 In your personal experience and participation in computer history, is there a thing (software or hardware) of the past that you particularly enjoyed using and has no modern equivalent or successor ?
1:18:50 Are there any historical "artifacts" in your library?
1:20:36 End Stream


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