knowledge
5:48Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator Video
217K views • 19 years ago
rkarena
Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator concept video imagines a conversational voice assistant, multi-touch tablet and video calling used by a professor. It was made years before the graphical web existed.
19:46David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
173K views • 19 years ago
TED
David Deutsch's TED talk arguing that humanity's survival depends on solving problems through knowledge growth. He frames people as improbable "chemical scum" capable of understanding distant quasars.
5:22Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
749K views • 18 years ago
pucitp
A short Princeton CITP video describing cold boot attacks, where encryption keys remain in DRAM after power loss and can be recovered. It covers the attack against disk encryption such as BitLocker, FileVault and TrueCrypt.
Topic match · Cryptography
4:43Richard Feynman Fire
758K views • 17 years ago
nebulajr
A short clip from a Richard Feynman interview in which he explains fire, describing how burning wood releases sunlight stored by the tree, which built itself mostly from air. It showcases his curiosity and plain-spoken explanations.
10:00SICP / What is "Computer Science" ?
131K views • 20 years ago
LarryNorman
An excerpt from Hal Abelson's opening SICP lecture introducing computer science and contrasting declarative and imperative knowledge. He argues that computer science is not really a science and is more like magic or engineering of ideas.