PickVidsBest Tech pioneers & interviews Videos
The 369 Tech pioneers & interviews videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 91 intermediate, 272 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an interview. What they share is that the guest explains a past choice instead of reciting a glossary. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Computer History Museum, PowerfulJRE.
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1 // Summer 2021]
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut tours SpaceX's Starbase with Elon Musk as guide.
QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote
John Carmack's long QuakeCon 2012 keynote, a free-ranging talk covering software engineering, game platforms, game streaming, and his early head-mounted display and VR work.
Peter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."
Peter Thiel is the first guest on Eric Weinstein's The Portal, in a nearly three-hour conversation about technological stagnation, institutional failure and the link between growth and violence.
HD Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete (with optional Chinese subtitles)
A restored HD upload of the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine, in which Richard Feynman talks informally about everyday science.
Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
Lex Fridman has a three-hour conversation with Joscha Bach about artificial consciousness, the workings of the mind, intelligence and the possibly simulated nature of reality.
Joe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay
Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, interviews Alan Kay at Code Mesh.
How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture covers his career at Xerox PARC and how to think about inventing the future.
Steve Jobs Secrets of Life
A short excerpt from a 1994 interview of Steve Jobs in which he says everything around us was made up by people no smarter than you, and that you can change and shape the world.
OOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language
Guy Steele's classic 1998 OOPSLA keynote on how a programming language must grow with its user community.
Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
A three-hour-plus Joe Rogan podcast with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, policy lead Vijaya Gadde and journalist Tim Pool.
Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought
Bret Victor's closing keynote at UIST and SPLASH 2014 argues that our tools for thinking ignore most of human sensory and motor capability.
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
Lex Fridman's two-hour podcast with George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, covering openpilot, autonomous driving and Hotz's views on AI and technology.
How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Part two of Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture on inventing the future.
Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
Alan Kay speaks at the DEMO Founder School session on why real progress takes invention rather than incremental innovation.
Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, introduces the event-driven I/O framework built on V8 with examples, and discusses the v0.4.0 release and its new APIs.
Bitcoin 2012 London: Mike Hearn
Mike Hearn's talk at the 2012 London Bitcoin Conference on the future of Bitcoin, new applications and rebuilding the banking system.
Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet
Alan Kay's 1997 OOPSLA keynote, preserved on YouTube after being lost from Google Video.
Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films
A short clip of Steve Jobs describing the computer as a bicycle for the mind.
Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond
Admiral Grace Hopper holds up a length of wire to show how far light travels in a nanosecond, about 11.8 inches.
Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling
An Alan Kay talk on programming and scaling, covering theoretical limits of code size, engineering versus tinkering, and biological cells as inspiration for object-oriented design.
Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework
A three-minute clip of Jeff Bezos describing his Regret Minimization Framework: imagining yourself at 80 to decide whether to leave a Wall Street job to start Amazon.
Avie Tevanian: CMU math whiz goes from Mach to NeXT to Apple Software Chief | Oral History Part 1
A Computer History Museum oral history with Avie Tevanian covering his math talent, work on the Mach microkernel at CMU, joining NeXT, leading NEXTSTEP development and the 1996 Apple acquisition.
Complete Apple WWDC | Steve Jobs talk and answer developers questions | 1997
The full 1997 WWDC session in which Steve Jobs, newly back at Apple, takes developer questions for about an hour.
John Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4
Part 4 of John Carmack's QuakeCon 2013 keynote, covering OpenGL, functional programming, Haskell, Lisp and Scheme, typing, multithreading, events and garbage collection.