Future of Science and Technology Q&A (April 12, 2024)

Stephen Wolfram hosts an unscripted Ask Me Anything about the future of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
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00:00 Start stream
2:29 SW starts talking
2:44-14:53 What features will humans evolve in the future? Will we one day be able to look at the Sun with our naked eye?
14:55-22:58 What is there to say about the future of philosophy? It feels like such an ancient study.
23:04-31:58 ​​If empirical evidence indicates that there is a finite, digital, physical multiverse, then will the practice and philosophy of mathematics undergo huge changes?
32:03-33:05 Are all philosophers logicians?
33:19-40:40 Will we ever find a cure for the common cold?
40:52-45:40 Could that end up messing up our immune systems because they've always fought colds?
45:41-50:54 What about the possibility of injecting tiny computers into our blood cells?
50:59-1:02:42 Topically, you may remember a boom in nanotech ~20 years or so ago, including nano-robotics research labs and a subsequent bust of a sort. Where is that nanotech boom/bust cycle now and looking ahead?
1:02:49-01:09:34 For nanotech to really take off will require new foundational building blocks, mostly from a convergence of biotechnology and electronics research. We see glimpses of that from DNA sequencing/printing.
1:09:45-1:13:52 What do you foresee in terms of substrates of the future for computation? In the medium term? Long term?
1:13:56-1:21:28 Does the success of one field sometimes slow down other research fields?
1:21:49: End stream
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[@pokerman8910]

Stephen is my favorite KZbinr

[@winkletter]

Starts at 2:28

[@nunomaroco583]

Incredible topics, great explanations....

[@fabianwenger7133]

50:54 on nanotech - good reflections, more is different

[@richardbolger7695]

A Saucerful of Secrets?

[@LibrawLou]

Isn't the language necessary for formalizing an idealizing system for modeling not a 'computational' language but instead, more broadly, an 'encoding' language -- since a computer may not even be necessary until an evolving model becomes scalable by automation?

[@LibrawLou]

The triad of creating a code, encoding an idea, and modeling its idealization seems to be what happened with e.g. DNA and genetics, and electromagnetic theory with GA (Geometric Algebra) encoding its single equation, and possibly Spinor encoding of all matter (leptons & quarks) if Octonions can be more fully incorporated with quarks?

[@JuliusUnique]

14:40 prety sure they will sleep while their bodies are cooled if they don't want to experience the boring flight, even though I doubt we are in this human form anymore way into the future

[@KaliFissure]

🙏👍🤘🖖

[@Buy_YT_Views_273]

you really are something else