Walter Isaacson: The History Of The Future

The history of computers is a history of competition and collaboration: Innovators have worked together, but also clashed over the place of computers in society and how they should function. Those clashes—between privacy and openness, businessmen and bohemians—continue to this day. See "The Innovators" author Walter Isaacson, MakerBot CEO Jennifer Lawton, The Muse.com founder Kathryn Minshew and journalist John Hockenberry parse the past, present, and future of our technological revolution in the World Science Festival event Science and Story: The History of the Future.

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Original Program Date: October 22, 2014
Host: John Hockenberry
PARTICIPANTS: Walter Isaacson, Jennifer Lawton, Kathryn Minshew

John Hockenberry's introduction. 00:08

Early computing and animation. 3:45

The HP 41C computer. 7:50

Welcome Walter Isaacson. 9:10

What was the interest in computing? 11:00

Who was Alan Turing? 15:47

The first electronic circuit board. 21:30

The hardware lead to the development of software. 26:32

The Altair computer from 1975. 30:20

And that's how Apple is born. 33:38

Walter takes on John at Pong. 41:46

The innovation of the internet. 45:29

Those who refuse to lend their computers power. 51:11

Welcome Jennifer Lawton & Kathryn Minshew 54:10

Does MakerBot land on both sides of the open source and IP debate? 56:45

What is Unix? 1:00:00

How much IP is involved in the 3D printing world. 1:03:18

What are the aspirations of 3D printing? 1:07:02

The rise of the startup. 1:13:05

Do morals keep up with technology? 1:17:03

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