How The MIT Ideas Factory Revolutionised the Future
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MIT has turned out some of the finest scientific minds over the 100 years, many of whom have gone on to create revolutionary technologies and companies and much like Bell labs which I did a video on a few years back is still in the fray and working on the cutting edge of things like AI, Robotics, Biotech etc. So this video is a look at how MIT created the future.
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You mean Harvard?
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I love these "where would the world be right now without this" type of topic. Paul, now please take it 1 step further. Bell Labs, MIT, DARPA, and other institutions have spawned technologies for verious industries, BUT, there is one industry they all have supported. The same industry the USSR helped to support. Space Exploration! Not just NASA, but all the space agencies around the world, have, a lot of times with the help of those previously mentioned institutions, developed technologies to be able to communicate with astronauts in space and on the Moon, to navigate to distant locations (to include asteroids), and even to just keep electronics and humans alive in the harsh environment of space. PLEASE do an indepth video of all the spinoffs from technologies developed/matured for space exploration, that enable our way of life today and have made our lives better physically, tangibly.
6:36 That's pretty cool...pretty good life lesson in there, I think...
"It just seemed like a neat idea"...
That's freaking awesome.
Happy New Year!
Great video!
One huge thing you didn't mention - MIT was the birthplace of the "open-source software" movement as it was the place that Richard Stallman attended (who later set up the GNU Project - still going today). The GNU project are responsible for gcc and a lot of other software too.
FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!
Richard Stallman, the great
he founded/created the Free Software Movement, the GNU project and the GNU GPL copyleft license
the term Open source or Open source movement came later by others, and probably those who preferred to not to hint to the 'Free' (free as in freedom not as free beer) and didn't want to have or reveal a philosophical/political standpoint...
anyway Free software and Open source software are in practice technically almost always the same... they have the same or compatible licenses
nowadays we have an ocean of free/open-source software in almost every area thanks to guys like Richard Stallman... he really changed the path of the history for better... of course many others and even some commercial companies contributed and helped to these movements, otherwise the humanity could not achieve what is achieved now, but Richard Stallman was the person who started and founded it all. he was a founder and, for a long time, a great leader
Gcc means
Actually, no, this is not a great video. It is a mediocre video, with content that even a 12 year old could put together as a school project. No, the videos that Curious Droid makes now compared to before is just sad to watch. It seems to me that this guy is content in making videos that are quite effortless to make. No actual research and no effort. Just wiki stuff and pics from the web. Easy to do. So, like I said, no, this is not a great video... at best it is an example of what level NOT to stoop to when you have over 1 million subscribers.
@@nilsrp EXACTLY!!!!!!! MIT is now FULL of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity now so we shall see their standards hit the FLOOR whilst Russia and China EXCELL!!!! But that's the point with Marxism. I doubt Mr Fat Bald Head understands this or will deal with it lol!!!!!!
My mechanical engineering professor was a commercial fisherman and MIT dropout.
It pays to never give up.
Happy New Year, Mr. Shiilito.
Greetings,
Anthony
Gordon Freeman is my favorite scientist who graduated from MIT
Thanks Curious & wishing you a Happy New Year !
well done. thank you for all the work and then sharing.
That was a great video Paul and I always enjoy then, But that was more than a couple, as that is just two. Happy New Year.
Thanks. Happy New Year.
Great video as always. Tiny pedant point it's al - um - ni.
Thanks for sharing Sir & Happy New Year🎆🎆🎆
Great video as always !
The PDP-10 for which Ray Tomlinson worked on the TENEX operating system was a Mainframe Computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1966. The DEC Mini-Computer of the same time frame was the PDP-11 introduced in 1969.
...another awesome video! Thank you! Also, really cool Tshirt. Do. you have a merchandise store?
Great video thanks Paul - love the T Shirt btw!
wonderful video I never understood the principles of analogue computers its good to see the curtain pulled up on them a bt
No mention of Gordon Freeman? He was the MIT graduate most of us are familiar with.
You don't open up a dimensional rift that destroys the world as we know it and expect MIT to take credit for you.
🤕 🧐
11:15 - "Core" didn't need power to preserve its content, but reading a core "word" erased that word upon reading, known as a "destructive read", the content of that "read", had to be rewritten to that same address. Not a problem for the Seeburg jukebox models that also used core memory. Because in a jukebox, the "erase" (aka clear), was usually the next operation, in the older mechanical mechanisms. The Apollo guidance computers used core for RAM, an "Rope" a near core equivalent, for its ROM, where the program was stored.
FYI, for those not familiar with broader computer use. Most common users, think the program (or app) has to be read from the "drive" (serial FLASH, in cellphones and Firesticks) to RAM, to execute. But that's just in the "general computing" world, that uses an OS (operating system). In the "embedded" world, where more computing actually sits, the program is stored in ROM, and executes directly from the ROM, with RAM only used for storing variables, so a lot less RAM (multiple orders of magnitude less) is needed. These types of devices boot up instantly, without the delay associated with turning on your computer or cellphone. Even those have "boot ROMs", to initiate their start up.
Fantastic upload, really enjoyed this.🙂
Love your channel, nice to see new content. Sir, thank you Sir
Great stuff, looking forward to what you have planned this year.
Great production as usual!
Brilliant video as usual! Thanks!
Love the teashirt… very clever!
Im very drunk, its 4:31 in my Time Zone and i understood nothing, but feel very smart, thx, Happy good New year
Happy new year Mr Shillito. May you keep educating us about such wonderful subjects with your outstanding videos. Thank you!
I always put thumbs up before even watching the video as I already know It will be a good one. Cheers from Argentina.
man we take the number of bytes our devices use for granted and often underplay what people have been able to accomplish with just a few KBs or MBs
Thanks, Paul!
Happy New Years, Paul! From all the Curious Droids!
Now, please do Australia's CSIRO inventions.
You won't know the people, but you use the tech every day.
I had the good fortune to get a tour of the MIT Media Lab about 15 years ago. It was singularly one of the coolest experiences I've had in my life. It's a truly amazing place.
its so sad the uk government lacked foresight and ambition. The talent we have either moves to America or is sold off for a quick buck to China. I wrote to Johnson complaining about hs2 costs and that we should invest that money in our universities, challenging students to think outside the box and create the future.
Thank you for this
That magnetic core is beautiful the cable management on that thing is amazing. What a cool relic of the late analogue/ early digital age
Imagine it was actually used on the 1986 Challenger shuttle's computer and survived.
10:50 -- The similarities between this black-and-white schematic of analog ram with the "upspin/downspin" qualities of quarks in quantum physics is incredible.
A "D" from MIT is worth 1000x more than an "A" from the "ivy league".
Love your videos, I apprciate the time and effort you put into them. A quick observation, on your patreon support page title, 'thier' should be spelt 'their'
George Eastman the founder of Kodak, donated millions of dollars to MIT and RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) as well as Tuskegee Institute and University Of Rochester. These large donations enabled these schools to expand and become the universities they are today!
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Paul, Thank you for reviewing MIT's involvement in "Revolutionising the Future." I am an alumnus (ChE'74) and was on campus as "email" was developing. It seemed cute that you could leave an electronic note on someone else's computer, but I did not see the worldwide value back then. Thank you for all the kind words. It does pay to be in the right place at the right time,, and MOT and Vannever Bush. it helps to know the right people.
Excellent video, chief. Thank you for all that you do.
Excellent video. Thanks.
Nice t-shirt, of the best scientific conundrum. I wish this t-shirt was in polo design
Happy new year
Fascinating stuff.
The book Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris addresses topics like the history of Stanford University and the darker side (which may also apply to MIT) is the rampant racism, eugenics support, sexism and anti-democratic tendencies of those involved. I work in IT and I think a lot of people don’t know about this history, and I think people should.
Thank you for posting. All the best for the new year
Nice shirt and another great video
What a video to start the year with! Amazing! Thanks so much and respect to all MIT alumni!
You say " a lum in i " and I say " a lum ni"
You say " po tat toe" and I say "poe ta toe...
Omg the tee shirt is to die for, my sister earned her doctorate at mit. No regrets about reading “ surely you’re joking Dr Feynman”
Top quality content as per.
Great video! At MIT, us grads call ourselves a-lum-ni, not a-lum-in-i. Other than that mispronunciation, I love this video.
You left out a name of a notable person from MIT - Dr. Gordon Freeman. His work at Black Mesa and in City 17 saved earth from the combine
More on this please
Yet another great video, Paul!
But, something is missing….. I know! It’s the shirt. The funky shirt is missing!!! 👍
Finally….a nice shirt….well done…love it!
As great as MIT is, SRI, at Stanford University was likely more involved with the Internet and GUI than MIT. Englebart is probably as big or bigger than some of the people listed in the video, for making computers common and the technologies for intercommunication. Still, Englebart got his ideas from a 1945 Vannevar Bush article, "As We Might Think" for a Memex machine (what we'd call an iPhone today). Engelbart made his life mission to make Memex a reality, and he did.
And let's not forget MIT also gave us Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers!
Man I miss them
Great story, as usual!
Love that shirt!
Thanks CD
Got a third through the video and was still waiting for the intro to play
Is this the beginning of a new shirt epoch? 😮
Re; Whirlwind
An Austrian tech professor, Heinz Zemanek, designed the countries first computer. It was also one of the first transistor only computers in Europe. Because this neede a lot less cooling than Whirlwind, he called it "Mailuefterl" (May breeze)
Yesss the last CZcams video I'll watch this year.
Thanks for this amazing channel.
Salud!
And the first one I watched in 2024 8:40am here.
Great shirt! 🤓
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THIS!
at 11:43 you show a chunk of CORE memory from a CDC machine. I turned my head and lo - there is that same module on the shelf in my office.
I really enjoyed this video... Would have liked it to have been longer, covering more things. Thanks!
Really interesting in realising what a profound impact MIT alumni has had in the world. But the question we should be asking is why? What sets MIT as being so successful?
Theyre "successful" because they all made connections and then went on to take positions of influence while maintianing their shared interests obv, it doesnt even require a genius level intellect or some kind of back breaking work ethic just shake the right hands and stick to the program and you'll get all the wealth and power you want
@@Dogman262That too of course, but MIT is different because they actually require practical academic achievements, unlike some other similar places like Harvard, which only require money and connections. That's why Harvard graduates usually become rich, but hardly celebrated, while MIT people are quite a bit more valued in society.
Its a self-fulfilling prophecy. A few are successful, that brings attention and money, both of which in turn attract more scientists etc etc. In short your answer is happy accident. Also MIT is hardly alone in this world in having successful alumni
"What sets MIT as being so successful?" Maybe it is because the teachers doesn't all have short blue hair.😇
@@Dogman262 it because of the unique place America is in. coast to coast with almost every environment on earth, cheap labour to the south and 350 million customers.
Love the T-shirt, Paul 😂 Happy New Year!
Generally, this was a good video, highlighting technology as A driver of OUR futureS. However, this didn't go into the truly important questions: how did technology developers and entrepreneurs try to sell their new technologies; and why did people buy them? The latter is crucial, because as Rogers noted in Diffusion of Innovations (5th ed, 2003, Free Press), people often adopt technologies to solve very different reasons than technologists and entrepreneurs offered them. Those technologies often have to be adapted, both to different uses AND to fit better with the mutually constructed social realities of the people adopting the technologies.
The reason I mention all this is that I took a Master of Science degree in Studies of the Future from University of Houston, Clear Lake. I went into the program thinking that technology drives society. I came out understanding that before technologies change society, society selects the technologies that will drive those changes. And it wasn't until I almost completed a PhD in Sociology that I understood why this is the case. Rogers' Diffusion of Technology is an essential read if you want to understand why.
Happy New Year 🎊 mate
MIT and Bells lab have created this modern world.
A t-shirt?! Seriously?! That’s awesome ;)
What's the purpose of focusing on names while you can connect ideas directly?
MIT even having a fun spot in the Fallout universe as having survived the nuclear catastrophe and being the creator of Synthetic humans and super mutant breeds. It's fun to destroy them using a rebuilt giant robot that throws nukes.
Love that shirt of yours Droid! Where can I get one?
How about doing one on Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center? JPL/CalTech?
I'm proud to be from here. Thanks Paul and Happy New Year!
👍 It's wicked awesome here.
You forgot to mention Human Measuring Stick Oliver Smoot
A wicked important point! ♥
Paul, Health and happiness for you and your family for 2024.
Hope your 2024 is great Paul! Looking forward to many videos in the next year!
Yeah i'm a SHILL promoting BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!
Paul is like Schrodinger's cat , both dead and alive depending if you're watching his videos or not. ;D
This was incredible. I’m the guy who watched this 200% through
This channel is one of the best of operation mocking bird productions.
Another great video. Thanks Paul!
James McDonnell founded McDonnell Aircraft Corp. That corporation later bought Douglas Aircraft to become McDonnell Douglas.
They used magnetic core memory in the Space shuttle ??? Wow.
Rad shirt and rad videos as usual. Welcome 2024!
Corning may be a good subject for a video as well. I was stunned learning the impact they had on the modern world as well.
very slick advert. nicely done . great videos dude
Nice change in shirt-type :)
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Very interesting. I didn’t know that the early shuttles used magnetic core memory but I suppose it’s obvious considering that the computer systems were originally built to early 70s technology
Core memory was also very resistant to cosmic radiation, which could affect semiconductor memory and lead to random computational errors - a bad thing to happen in your flight control system!
IIRC the IBM AP-101 computer family was used in a lot of applications in the 70s, including the F-15 fighter jet, the B-1 and B-52 bombers, and probably still is used. It's bullet-proof reliable and for the limited number of flight software programs you run on it it doesn't need to be super modern. I think the shuttle used them right until the end of the program, despite all the other avionics upgrades.
One of the 'problems' with the Space Shuttle development was the ever changing new technologies. So in order to finish a Shuttle build, they had to hold on to the technical gear they started with for that ship and not change anything till they started the next one.
When I was in the Survey part of the Navy, we had an Elliot 905 computer with 8k core memory and used 'ticker tape' to programme it. For a software patch, this specialist would come on board and literally read the tape, mark a spot, cut the tape and stick in the 'patch'. Guess that name stuck.
Remember the Radiation Laboratory at MIT!
I had a thought while watching this. I've got a coupla nephew's, one got an academic scholarship to WPI, & the other one? He got an academic scholarship to where you're talking about, 😳.