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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