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History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (March 10, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Problem of Autonomous Control

How do you get things to be able to, with just an electric circuit, so to speak, be able to do these kinds of things that seem to require control of various kinds? Mean, the extreme versions might be things like riding a bicycle and not having it fall over. One of the big successes was an anti aircraft gun, a that had a kind of productive control mechanism where cause you cand o have to shoot a little bit ahead of the thing you're shooting at.

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