Living Computers

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It’s the most dramatic technical development of recent times: Teams of people working for decades to produce a slow-motion revolution we call computing. As these devices become increasingly powerful, we recall that a pioneer from the nineteenth century – Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and Lord Byron’s daughter – said they would never surpass human ability. Was she right? We consider the near-term future of computing as the Internet of Things is poised to link everything together, and biologists adopt the techniques of information science to program living cells. Plus: What’s your favorite sci-fi computer? Guests: Walter Isaacson – President and CEO of the Aspen Institute and the author of The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Christopher Voigt – Bioengineer at MIT Andy Ihnatko – Technology journalist André Bormanis – Writer, screenwriter, Star Trek John Barrett – Electronic engineer, NIMBUS Centre for Embedded Systems Research at the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland First released December 7, 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.4	You've heard of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac, but the name Ada Lovelace may not be so familiar.
1:06.0	The 19th century mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron was a pioneer in computer programming.
1:11.0	She recognized its power, but she said it was limited.
1:15.0	Machines would never outstrip humans in their capabilities, she said.
1:19.0	But today, we're on the brink of a world where everything will be connected and programming
1:23.7	principles are applied to living cells so was Ada Lovelace right about the
1:28.3	limits of machines? It's living computers on big picture science. Innovation has always changed the world.
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