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The Great Laboratory pt.1

on YouTube 20m
Talkat DLD Tel Aviv 2014 · 2014-09-16..09-17· [computing-history, creative-coding]

speakers

name:Uri Aviv
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name:Grenzfurthner
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name:Daniel Lazo
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name:Hannu Rajaniemi
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name:Eran May-Raz
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/LA6_h7dXcCY
slides:none on file

summary

Chain of concrete claims: HG Wells' 1914 The World Set Free describes small, continually exploding, airplane-delivered "artificial elements" that anticipate the atomic bomb; Leo Szilard reads that, formulates the nuclear chain reaction, and drafts the Einstein–Szilard letter that sparks government action toward the Manhattan Project in 1939. Argues science fiction acts as a laboratory that names novel technologies, predicts social use and misuse, and yields specific inventions (radioactivity reactors, space ideas, robotics, human augmentation, the "global brain").

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 0:06What Is Autopia
  3. 3:51Albert Einstein
  4. 6:08Hg Wells
  5. 17:59The Global Brain

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