History of Science and Technology Q&A (April 21, 2021)
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: Stephen begins the stream - Hi Stephen. Is there some particular scientific discovery that was "forgotten" and later rediscovered by someone else, whose importance you would have liked to be recognized the first time? - How did theory of computational complexity emerge and is there research in that field that you find particularly promising? - Has the Voynich manuscript ever been decoded? - Does a proof not exist to show that NP cannot be done in P, is that the way to solve the P vs NP problem assuming if P is a subset of NP? - Could a computer randomly generate and test all algorithms from a hypergraph of all possible parse tree branches of the axioms similar to the physics project? - Have you done any work with VR? - A cool VR website would a digital Louvre where you enter and walk around looking at NFTs (for those into NFTs) and other type of exhibits