Wolfram | History of Science and Technology Q&A (October 16, 2024) @WolframResearch | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
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

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00:00 Start stream
3:33 SW starts talking
4:33 If you were transported back in time to say the time of Aristotle, what would you do? What would you pursue in terms of career/research?
9:40 Why are Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates the names most people think of when thinking about ancient society and science?
22:22 Almost all of these philosophers were also physicists
30:26 How did ancient thinkers like Democritus come up with early ideas about atoms and matter?
39:14 Do you think letters or published books/essays are more useful for studying history?
48:17 What about things like newspapers, but particularly pamphlets and journals that are lost or completely undervalued for not being books, even though people at the time would considered them essential
54:26 Would you run off and not drink the poison if you were Socrates?
57:12 Do you think it's still possible to be a polymath today like Da Vinci?
1:04:49 ​​I found a place that still produces those postcards you play on a record player. Do you think that would be a good way of storing things like a password or crypto especially utilizing steganography?
1:14:10 If humanity completely falls back to the storage level of knowledge, would we be able to grow our knowledge back fast enough to decipher old SSD's before they decay or would that be another Alexandria?
1:21:18 End stream

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