Keynote: Are There any Questions?
summary
Chronicles the questions behind computing with concrete landmarks and numbers: the Pascaline mechanical calculator at 19, ENIAC running 1,000× faster than human computers, GPS using 33 satellites at ~20,000 km and atomic clocks accurate to 1 millisecond per decade, Harrison’s chronometer accurate to 1 second in 6 months, and the factoring example that takes weeks on conventional hardware underpinning trapdoor functions used by WhatsApp and online banking. Examines how quantum computing (D‑Wave) and GPU farms threaten current crypto, and how data, medical implants and GPS actually work in practice.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 10:40Trapdoor Functions
- 14:15Posterior Equestions
- 16:02Books
- 17:31Web Development
- 18:46Book Publishing
- 19:53The Search Engine
- 20:44The Search Engine Limitations
- 21:36Fake News or Alternative Facts
- 22:35South Africas Capital
- 23:40Standard Questions
- 25:38Capital of Norway
- 29:45Greenwich Meridian
- 30:58Harrison Sea Chronometer
- 31:37GPS
- 32:35Atomic clocks
- 34:10Free GPS
- 35:56Siri
- 38:47Being Human
- 39:52The Information Age
- 41:07Google
- 41:39Questions are hard
- 42:01Bells palsy
- 43:04Fitbit
- 43:27Exoskeleton
- 43:51Preemptive Diagnostics
- 44:28Before Youre Born
- 45:21Crypto Ransomware
- 47:12Who owns your data
- 47:56Amazon banner ad
- 49:18Why
- 52:05Questions
