<p>Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE03Z481PVg&amp;list=PLxn-kpJHbPx3IO8b1yvkNyASj9i_Tw4n8&amp;pp=0gcJCdAEOCosWNin</p><p><br></p><p>Topics: Lessons from the history of science - Why scientific progress isn&#39;t linear - Ancient inefficiencies and bad inventions - AI, automation and human motivation - Why humans started doing math </p>