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History of Science & Technology Q&A (December 14, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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History of Chocolates and Pioneers of Parallel Processing

Explore the fascinating history of chocolate, from its divine origins with the Incas to its connection with the Quaker movement in England. Discover the mysterious technological advancements that revolutionized the refinement of chocolate. Plus, delve into the pioneers of parallel processing and computing in computer architecture and software.

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Speaker 1
this is one I should know and I don't from cat what's the history of chocolates what technology allowed the creation of chocolate candies to become so popular I can say only fragments and I'm afraid I'm not gonna do a good job I mean I think that was the the food of the gods from the Incas right was was chocolate in in Peru and such like and I think it was kind of brought back from the new world and um the uh you
Speaker 3
know there
Speaker 1
are these big cocoa bean thingies that um a big I don't
Speaker 3
know that like
Speaker 1
red color I think and they're very they're big and they you know I don't know what's involved in their harvesting I do know that that somehow in the in the 1800s in England um some of my sort of favorite chocolate companies like Cadbury's and things like that were were very um they had a lot of entanglement with kind of the the Quaker movement and uh various kinds of um sort of uh charity work and so on um I but I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm not I'm not up on what was the technological thing that allowed uh sort of the um um the refining of chocolate to work smoothly um so sorry I don't know don't know the answer to that um and now dangerously going into another one I'm not sure I know completely from David um the history of computer architecture and computer software uh who are the pioneers of parallel processing parallel computing I took a little bit about that
Speaker 3
um when the idea
Speaker 1
that

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