Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa
Questions include: What business opportunities could you see being successful in the next ten years? - What do you think about the sort of "density of information" in science or philosophy? Like your TED talk could be a pamphlet, a book, or a multi-volume set of books. Same deal with philosophy? - Would you ever teach a how-to writing course? - What's your opinion about the space tourism business? - Do you think there's a missing feature of current tech that computer or phone developers are overlooking? How can they capitalize on AI? - Somebody from NASA or SpaceX should put a 360 degree camera on Mars such that people on Earth can look around. - How important do you think interdisciplinary knowledge is for driving innovation? - I'm entering college this fall, what advice do you have for a college student's first year? - Can you think of ways to make a career out of learning? - How can I stay focused and work on projects that I'm not necessarily excited about? With general ed especially where my major is not focused. - I have several ideas for real world applications of my work and I am a scholar in my heart, and it seems that a math PhD (currently doing MSc) and then continue being around academia is the best way to do that. Could you say your thoughts about this? Should I leave academia and working on these, or mixing, or only after PhD? - [My advice for education] take classes that teach you how to learn or solve problems or different ways to think about subjects. Those were the most valuable classes. - Could there be an argument for different types of schooling vs common curriculum? To better fit different learning styles? - How do you compare scholarly life vs entrepreneurial life? - Can being a CEO be taught or is it something a person innately has the ability for? What would you study?
