- Free-style chess - human + machine teams are the future, because chess.
- Richard Feynman - challenger O-ring demo.
- Cost of light keeps dropping.
- Milgram experiment
- Moore's law
- Acceleratig returns
- Kickstarter
- Meaning of the word hacker
- Flash crash
- High speed trading
- Spread Networks - fibre optic between NYC and Chicago
- Invention of packet switching
- AT&T labs invented invented much of modern technology
- Invention of the transistor
- William Shockley and the Traitorous eight
- Network effects
- Speed at witch technology spreads, like the telephone
- Y2K bug
- first ever computer bug
- Speed of the human genome project
- DARPA Grand Challenge lead to self driving cars
- ARPA invented the Internet to survive a nuclear attach
- NASA space pen vs Russian pencil
- definition of power law/long tail
- machine translation
- "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
- translated from English to Russian and back becomes
- "The whiskey is strong, but the meat is terrible."
- machine translation: using big data instead of fixed rules
- Netflix Prize
- Therac-25 - radiation therapy machine - overdoses due to errors
- Arthur C. Clarke invented geostationary satellites
- Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
- The Knowledge changes the shape of taxi drivers brains
- Kodak vs Instagram
- definition of Linus's law
- History of Bitcoin/Blockchain
- Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894: New York full of horses and manure
- Invention of writing
- Boids
- Chekhov's gun
- Invention of the transistor
- Discovery of Penicillin
- The panopticon
- Betting prediction scam letters
- IBM Watson wins Jeopardy!
- Moneyball explains big data
- QWERTY layout
- Invention of the web at CERN
- Tunguska event
- Hush-A-Phone
- Fake lift door close button
- Interview question: why are manhole covers round?
- Placebo effect
- Mother of all demos
- Fractional reserve banking
- The magic of cities
- Zipf's Law for Cities
- Rise of China
- the prisoner's dilemma
- Paul Lazarsfeld WWII hindsight bias - not in Wikipedia
- Mona Lisa is famous because Vincenzo Peruggia stole it in 1911