• 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
    • Sucess and Luck
  • Mona Lisa is famous because Vincenzo Peruggia stole it in 1911