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Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (May 25, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Importance of Curiosity in Technology Development

I've noticed in my life I've kind of alternated between doing basic science and doing technology development. Technology makes tools that make me able to figure out things about basic science And also give me ways of thinking that helped me in thinking about basic science That's actually at least as important as the tools part of it. The idea of computational irreducibility would go from a theoretical concept to one that's burning huge amounts of electric power around the world is not an easy to foresee consequence.

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