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.
Charlie Rose: Sir James Goldsmith Interview - 15.11.94
Charlie Rose interviews Sir James Goldsmith in 1994 about the coming GATT free-trade agreement.
The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler
Dave Plummer interviews Dave Cutler, architect of VMS and Windows NT, in a roughly three-hour conversation about his career and the history of Windows.
Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack
John Carmack live-codes a simple VR application at Oculus Connect 2 using a Racket-based environment for rapid development and deployment on Gear VR.
Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
Ryan Dahl's first presentation of Node.js at JSConf 2009.
ASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner's ASPLOS 2021 keynote on the golden age of compiler design in an era of hardware and software co-design, covering compiler infrastructure for accelerators and unifying hardware IRs.
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor's talk from Dropbox's DBX conference about living by a guiding principle, in his case that creators need an immediate connection to what they are making.
Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
George Hotz gives a SXSW 2019 talk on the idea that we live in a simulation and asks what actions would be available from inside it.
Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162
Lex Fridman interviews chip architect Jim Keller about the future of computing, AI, life and consciousness.
The call to learn | Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll's energetic TED talk, a wandering mix of anecdotes, a science experiment and thoughts on curiosity, education and technology.
Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr
A 1996 BBC interview in which Noam Chomsky explains his propaganda model of the media to Andrew Marr, including how filters shape what journalists report and the role of self-censorship.
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
A five-hour Lex Fridman interview with John Carmack covering Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, programming, games and rockets.
Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology
The opening episode of Ted Nelson's Computers for Cynics series, in which he casts doubt on conventional accounts of computer basics.
Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]
Linus Torvalds is interviewed at Aalto University in 2012, followed by an audience Q&A.
The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
All six episodes of the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine, in which Richard Feynman muses on jiggling atoms, fire, rubber bands, magnets, electricity and more.
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr.: The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud
Smalltalk pioneer Dan Ingalls presents the Lively Kernel at JSConf US 2012, a live, direct-manipulation programming environment running in the browser.
Edsger W. Dijkstra on Dutch TV
A 2001 VPRO Noorderlicht documentary episode, filmed in Austin in 2000, visiting Edsger Dijkstra and his views on thinking as a discipline.
Ryan Dahl - History of Node.js
Ryan Dahl tells the history of Node.js and why he created it at a Phoenix meetup.
The Computer Chronicles - Gary Kildall Special (1995)
A 1995 episode of The Computer Chronicles devoted to Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M.
Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
Sandy Munro interviews Elon Musk at Boca Chica about Tesla production, mega-castings, seats, structural battery packs and the difficulty of mass production.
Y Combinator's Paul Graham sits down with Jason at LAUNCH Festival 2014
A fireside chat at LAUNCH Festival 2014 where Paul Graham tells Jason Calacanis why he is handing Y Combinator's presidency to Sam Altman.
TWiST #46 with David Heinemeier Hansson
An episode of This Week in Startups in which Jason Calacanis interviews Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson.
Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips
Clip from Lex Fridman's podcast with Roger Penrose in which Penrose argues that consciousness is not a computation.
Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment”
Peter Robinson interviews Peter Thiel at the Hoover Institution about Thiel's essay The Straussian Moment.
NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo
Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP Release 3, showing the object-oriented development environment and UI that later became the basis of Mac OS X.