I listened to this talk on TED.COM and took some notes for some note-taking practice, the talk can be found HERE
last year I told u a story in 7 mins of proect implausible technology
this year i m gonna tell u about the birth of digital computer
this technology is inevitable
including changing biology
first atomic bomb at trinity which ws the manhaton project
3 of the smartest people
thomas hobbes 1656
wanoymen said he was thinking something more important than bomb, he was thinking abt the computer
addition and subtraction
u can do the whole thing with addition in 1679
1945 reinvents the whole same thing
June 1945
just reading a tape in and translating out
controlled input and the output
programing has to be perfect or it wont work
essentials were all there for these machines to work
I m trying to revise history nd give these guys some more credit than they had
each of these machines has billions of transistors
every step of the way
women did the most of the programming as very first programmer
this machine was cloned about 50 other places in around the world
very sensitive electro magnatic disturbances
begineng of the computer grapics was in 1954
those guys drink all the tea with sugar in it
runing time 2 mints
impossible to follow the damn thing where is the directory
found the trouble in code
code error but the machine is not guilty
wts the use Good Night!
smell of burning the v belt
high speed was 16 MHZ
we duplicate the errors
all it happens is machine is runing
they were actualy desinging the bomb
Bils Aal Barricelli
he went around the countery after that
exactaly wt happens is now basically
he claimed machine is wrong code is right
nemirical testing of evolution theories
this was life like or a new kind of life another birth of computer
the memory sizes were really small in the beginng my laptop is 1000 million times more than the beginer computer
theory of self-reproducing thoery
4 million built every 24 hours
he explained in a very generous way
last entry in the log book in 1958
New words I learnt fron the talk
Main Entry: Implausible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Not plausible or believable.
Synonyms: flimsy, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, shaky, thin, unbelievable, unconceivable, unconvincing, unsubstantial, weak
Main Entry: Inevitable
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms: assured, certain, decided, destined, doomed, fatal, fated, fateful, imminent, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, in the cards, necessary, sure, unavoidable, unpreventable
