It just needs to work once.

Meet your descendants. They don't know what it's like to be involuntarily lost, don't understand what we mean by the word "privacy", and will have access to a historical representation of our species that defies understanding.

"Simonyi believes he can solve a host of stubborn problems that have always plagued computers by offering everyone who uses them, and the coders who program them, a higher-order view of software."

How computers (the basis for modern science and technology) are related to immortality (the ultimate goal - one of them).

A comparison is made between a model of technology in which the level of technology advances exponentially without limit and a model with an economic limit.

An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens.

Computer scientist Peter Kassan reviews the numerous reasons why AI is harder than anyone anticipated.

The digital revolution has already occurred in communications and computation, argues Gershenfeld; now it's time for the fabrication revolution.