70: What’s a Computer? Part 2
10/13/21 • 47 min
Rob continues to review the origins of modern computers and together Joseph and Rob are just astonished how far technology has come in the last 50 years. Dr. Carter admits it’s really hard to understand computer sciences and think like an engineer.
Rob continues to review the origins of modern computers and together Joseph and Rob are just astonished how far technology has come in the last 50 years. Dr. Carter admits it’s really hard to understand computer sciences and think like an engineer.
Previous Episode
69: What’s a Computer? Part I
Joseph and Rob discuss what insects they’ve seen over the seasons of 2021, give a little update about their bees’ behavior, and in their fascinating main topic, they discuss the origins of the modern computer! Rob takes us back a few centuries to start with the fundamental innovations that allude to the seemingly miraculous technologies we take for granted.
- 10 Reasons Why the Computer Was Invented
- Charles Babbage
- History of Computers: A Brief Timeline
- Logic gates
- U.S. Patent 2,667,304, General 599 Adding Machine at the Smithsonian
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- Watch Biblical Genetics on YouTube
- Listen to Joseph’s HiFi podcast
Next Episode
71: 2021 Nobel Prizes
Dr. C. and Joseph Darnell explore the 2021 Nobel Prizes—who won what and why? Afterward, they discuss some of the coolest technologies “of the future” that you’ve never heard of, including robotic bees and 100% recyclable wind turbines! All this and more in this week’s episode of Equinox!
- Top 10 future technologies you’ve definitely never heard of
- Fully recyclable wind turbine blades
- NASA to move near-earth asteroid by smashing a spacecraft into it
- New record set for coldest temperature—38 picokelvins
- 2021 Nobel Prizes
- Literature
- Economics
- Peace
- Physics
- Physiology or Medicine
- Chemistry
- Become an Equinox Plus member on Patreon!
- Follow @PodcastEquinox on Twitter
- Write us an email: podcastequinox-at-gmail-dot-com
- Watch Biblical Genetics on YouTube
- Listen to Joseph’s HiFi podcast
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