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: Does Stephen play any musical instrumentals? Would you consider songs formal systems? I've been imagining a multi-way graph for all of the chords on a guitar. - How do you think the behavior of innovation changes with scale? That is, what's the difference in innovation between startups, small businesses, and enterprises? - Do you have electronic-off day/time-window (no electronic communication and no computers etc)? - How do you deal with back pain or eye strain from reading too much? - If you started your business again, what would you avoid or do differently? - As we are eliminating jobs at light speed, how do you think society will cope with mass unemployment after we can automate majority of trade related jobs? - How did you manage the sales side when you started that first company? - If you were to go back in time, would you be able to get the world to 2020 tech within 20 years? - But what happens in the future when we have AIs that can simulate realities that are indistinguishable from reality? What if you can simulate people doing jobs? - Does Stephen Wolfram think that people should specialize in education earlier, instead of taking general classes in high school, focus on one field, get to undergrad level of education earlier? - Didn't Feynman study Mayan Hieroglyphs? - Can an old dog learn new tricks? (i.e. can a middle aged person learn math, programing, and be successful anywhere near someone that started when they were young.) - What innovations, if any, do you think may be most useful for K-12 public education in the US?

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Is 10 a special number in any way? Why is scientific notation (or the digit system) in base 10? Is it just because we have 5×2 fingers? -Lots of flowers have five-fold symmetry. - ​Empedocles believed arms, fingers and legs just roamed around as creatures of their own, eventually merging into all kinds of creatures, and only the five-fingered, four-limbed animals won out. It's like an ancient Greek natural selection. - Why are some animals cold-blooded? - Can the Wolfram Physics Project be used to simulate models of new medications for diseases? #WolframPharma. - Will we ever successfully be able to use cryogenics to freeze humans? Won't the ice crystals rupture our cells, like a banana left in the freezer and then thawing it out? - Is it true that cats domesticated themselves compared to other animals that humans domesticated for a purpose?

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: In eight hundred years, what will people call the methodology of NKS? - ​I always felt Ptolemy's system was a necessary step before Copernicus and Newton. Without that slightly dodgy pseudo-scientific reasoning, Copernicus and Newton wouldn't have "fixed" and refined it. - Newton invented calculus and his three laws. Do you consider the new Physics Project developing a new tool like calculus, or are you inventing new laws? - Why was gravitoelectromagnetism ignored for so long? - ​I disagree with Wolfram. I think there is no "end" to how infinitesimal the universe gets. There's always more—the discoveries will never end. - I understand a great deal of human history was lost in ancient Alexandria. Of the early mathematics, are there texts that reference concepts that are lost to us? - ​​Is ruliology a "young person's game," an "old person's game" or something else? - What traits do you think will be most important for great ruliologists? (Ruliologers? Rulioligizers? Rulioligraphers?)

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: The term \"spatom\" as a portmanteau of space atom (atom of space): yes or no? - Did you ever meet Vladimir Arnold? What do you think of the Erlangen program? - ​Can spoken language be broken into a set of logical primitives? What major attempts have been made at this, and in what ways did they fail? Is GPT-3 an example of building up from language primitives? - Language is to all things; the context of its content - Will we have a better designed/optimized cities, homes, everyday objects in future? - Since the world is now built around humans, would humanoid robots be the most general? (like a Rosie for in home tasks)

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 are your thoughts on GDPR legislation and the general hostility towards cloud technologies in the EU? Lots of tech companies are getting huge fines these days? - Your hair is looking sharp today, looks like a fresh cut. What are your thoughts on the grooming habits of scientists and technologists? Any correlation with grooming/dress and productivity? - Can you talk about the perception of CEOs within their own companies and in the public eye? How to maintain one's leadership and reputation when thousands of people rely on one's decisions? - Have you ever felt that you were working on too many projects at one time? I am developing 3 different products now. I love the challenge. But is one project at a time better in your experience? - What be your ideal business size? How many employees is there a sweet spot? - What's your rule of thumb to change your mind? - Your record of being a WFH CEO is unique. Has the pandemic changed how you have been CEO-ing? - If you don't mind me asking, Stephen, what do you do to relax and unwind from your business? - What's the best way to organize thoughts, ideas, pieces of code, frameworks and projects when there are hundreds?

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Should an International agreement be created so that Artificial General Intelligence has rights before AGIs exist so that they feel their rights are respected? - How do we know you are Stephen Wolfram the human and not an AI generating an artificial Stephen Wolfram? How could we perform the Turing test for this livestream? - ​Are you hopeful for brain/computer interfacing in the near future?

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: I think that there has been a concerted and focused effort to give greater emphasis to STEM education since WWII. Has the history of science been left out in this process? - Nassim Taleb points out that engineering precedes theory, even in complicated projects such as jet propulsion. Can you think of historical counter-examples when theory preceded engineering? - Can you talk about some times in history when scientific knowledge was destroyed and why that occurred? - What is the history of Ivy League? Why are those universities so prestigious? - How does science progress from outside of the academic process? - What do you make of the work being undertaken to lab grow woolly mammoths in a collaboration between a team at Harvard and the company Colossal and its potential in curbing the thawing of permafrost to mitigate the impact of the release of all the built up carbon? - Do you believe that Fermat really solved Fermat's Last Theorem with a "truly marvelous demonstration", or was his solution probably not mathematically rigorous? - What is your opinion on polymathy in the modern age of specialization? - ​How has our understanding of time changed over history? - What do you think is the limit of human understanding, or is there a limit?

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Large language models like gpt3, the way they work and how to ask the right questions - the dangers of space junk around the earth posing a risk on commercial space hotels in the future as the industry grows? - It seems like science literacy is on the decline, what can we do about it? What does it mean to be scientifically literate? - Stephen_Wolfram do you think the scientific process has been damaged during the pandemic, but more because the speed of information opinion on the internet? - Stephen_Wolfram Why is development of Nanotechnology so slow despite it's effectiveness in medicine, oncology etc?

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Hey Dr. Wolfram, I'm Sneed, and I work within the agricultural industry. Can you see cellular automata benefiting my industry in the future? Can potentially predict crop yields? - Have you read SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) and what do you think about this book?

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: Mr. Wolfram do you like video games? If so, what games do you play? - What do you plan to achieve by the end of 2022? - Is there a way to gauge how good your own business/product ideas are when you have limited external feedback available? - Stephen, with access to the internet, having access to knowledge is not a problem, but humans absorb knowledge very slowly. How can we optimize the use of the knowledge we have access to? - ​How do you manage to keep up with a project after the most challenging parts are complete? Sounds silly, but to me, I loose the interest after I crack its core. - ​If you were starting a tech company today outside of the US, where would you start it? - Why doesn't Stephen have an American accent after living in the US for so long? - On innovations and in fact thinking in general: What analogies/mental models do you find most useful? - Do you think 4 day workweek is a good idea? Feels like it's defacto becoming so post-pandemic. - How to approach my boss, so he makes the decision, that I believe is good for the company? Is it good to insist or is it better to do it softly? - What has one to learn about business administration? what are useful learning resources? - Have you ever regretted leaving the academy? - How far out do you prep your day to day work? I'm starting to get the hang of studying routines but not organization of what there is to do lol