- 52 minutes 15 secondsScience & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 22, 2026]
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
Topics: Why perpetual motion machines fail - What might be driving the universe's expansion - How particles emerge from the structure of space - Entropy and the Big Bang theory - How temperature can become negative
28 May 2026, 3:46 pm - 1 hour 26 minutesFuture of Science and Technology Q&A (May 15, 2026)
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlhZURSQIs8&list=PLxn-kpJHbPx2vIchOwIBRkDeKjuJDYTOQ
Topics discussed: How human understanding evolves - The future of the scientific method - Restoring movement after paralysis - Using physics to look back at Earth's history - Life in virtual worlds - Space-based data centers - AI for verifying code
28 May 2026, 2:58 pm - 1 hour 22 minutesBusiness, Innovation and Managing Life (May 13, 2026)
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-704PZz0Uo&list=PLxn-kpJHbPx0UJceDNIMUAcjYGYFnW8yo
Topics discussed: Open source in the age of AI - Making AI useful without being fooled by it - Accountability for ownerless AI - Deploying AI in the real world
28 May 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutesHistory of Science & Technology Q&A (May 6, 2026)
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE03Z481PVg&list=PLxn-kpJHbPx3IO8b1yvkNyASj9i_Tw4n8&pp=0gcJCdAEOCosWNin
Topics: Lessons from the history of science - Why scientific progress isn't linear - Ancient inefficiencies and bad inventions - AI, automation and human motivation - Why humans started doing math
27 May 2026, 11:47 pm - 1 hour 21 minutesScience & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 1, 2026]
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
Topics: Why brains matter in biology - Evolution beyond biology - Why evolution builds life the way it does
14 May 2026, 10:09 pm - 1 hour 15 minutesBusiness, Innovation and Managing Life (April 29, 2026)
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
Topics discussed: Product strategy & company focus - AI's impact on business & society - Productive leadership & paradigm-shifting ideas
14 May 2026, 10:02 pm - 1 hour 30 minutesFuture of Science and Technology Q&A (April 24, 2026)
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Topics discussed: Quantum biology - Mass spectrometers on the Moon - Quantum algorithms vs. traditional algorithms - Future advances in chemotherapy and stem cells
14 May 2026, 9:57 pm - 1 hour 12 minutesScience & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [April 10, 2026]
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
Topics: Proofs in the age of AI - Learning and communicating proofs - How AI handles errors and bugs
14 May 2026, 9:50 pm - 1 hour 22 minutesEp 2: Philosophy Discussion with Stephen Wolfram and Luz Christopher Seiberth
Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this ongoing series of intellectual explorations with philosophers.
17 April 2026, 7:21 pm - 1 hour 25 minutesFuture of Science and Technology Q&A (April 3, 2026)
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Topics discussed: What counts as knowledge with AI? - Machine curiosity and new ways of thinking - How will future humans look at our science? - AI's final form - Exploring space and beyond
17 April 2026, 7:09 pm - 1 hour 12 minutesScience & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [March 13, 2026]
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
Topics: Bugs in software and whether the universe could have bugs - Why restarting a system can restore order - How wireless signals manage to coexist - How radio sound gets encoded onto a signal
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