Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:29 - What Turing got wrong
6:53 - MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
20:00 - Digital logic
26:36 - Self-assembling robots
37:04 - Digital fabrication
47:59 - Self-reproducing machine
55:45 - Trash and fabrication
1:00:41 - Lab-made bioweapons
1:04:56 - Genome
1:16:48 - Quantum computing
1:21:19 - Microfluidic bubble computation
1:26:41 - Maxwell's demon
1:35:27 - Consciousness
1:42:27 - Cellular automata
1:46:59 - Universe is a computer
1:51:45 - Advice for young people
2:01:02 - Meaning of life

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