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.
Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85
Lex Fridman interviews physicist Roger Penrose on consciousness, the limits of computation, quantum mechanics and his cyclic cosmology.
Elon Musk : How to Build the Future
A 20-minute Y Combinator interview in which Sam Altman asks Elon Musk how to build the future.
A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics
A 2012 Harvard Institute of Politics conversation between Peter Thiel and historian Niall Ferguson.
Seymour Papert
A short vintage film clip of Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, on using computers to spark children's imagination and learning.
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25
Lex Fridman interviews Jeff Hawkins, founder of Numenta and author of On Intelligence, about the Thousand Brains Theory and reverse-engineering the neocortex.
Bret Victor Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor's talk "Inventing on Principle" argues that creators should find a guiding principle to fight for.
Rocker Jack White - Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien | Team Coco
Conan O'Brien interviews Jack White in a Serious Jibber-Jabber episode shot on 35mm film.
John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynote
John Carmack's keynote at Facebook Connect 2021, where he speaks candidly about VR, Quest, and Meta's metaverse plans.
Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike
Rob Pike presents Upspin at Gopherfest 2017, an experimental framework for naming and sharing files and data securely and uniformly across a global namespace.
Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs at Apple's 1997 WWDC, shortly after his return, taking developer questions and describing Apple's direction.
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
Lex Fridman interviews Mark Zuckerberg in the metaverse, with both appearing as photorealistic avatars from separate locations.
Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007
An excerpt from Steve Jobs's January 2007 Macworld keynote in which he introduces the original iPhone.
Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
Alan Kay argues for rethinking how computer science is taught in schools, drawing on his work on object-oriented programming and GUIs.
Chuck Moore's Fireside Chat 2011
Chuck Moore, creator of Forth, gives his annual Fireside Chat at Forth Day 2011 at Stanford.
Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
A three-minute excerpt of a Steve Jobs interview in which he describes how monopolies let sales and marketing people displace product people, rotting a company's product sensibility, with Xerox as the example.
Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
A 2012 Fortune dinner debate between Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt over whether technological progress is healthy or stalling and whether Google can still innovate.
Louis CK honors George Carlin
Louis CK speaks at a 2010 NYPL tribute to George Carlin about how Carlin's habit of discarding material and writing a new hour each year changed his own career.
Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital Pt. 2- TWiST #295
Part two of Jason Calacanis's long interview with investor Chris Sacca on This Week in Startups.
Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
Brian Kernighan gives a talk at the University of Nottingham on how to succeed in language design without really trying.
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv
Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement address, in which he tells three stories about connecting the dots, love and loss, and death, including his remarks on typography.
The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds tells the story of Linux in a 2001 talk at the Computer History Museum, from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon of open source.
Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1
A roughly three-hour Computer History Museum oral history interview of Donald Knuth by Edward Feigenbaum, recorded in 2007.
Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland
A Foresight Institute workshop video with two talks: Shawn Douglas on nanoscale instruments for visualizing small proteins, and Bret Victor on Dynamicland.
Hacker Interviews: Larry Wall
Jonathan Schiefer interviews Larry Wall, creator of Perl, in a 33-minute conversation.