The Scientist Who Invented the Future

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Highly recommend Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography on John von Neumann: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Future-Visionary-Ideas-Neumann/dp/1324050500 Please check out the book in the above link - you won't be disappointed. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including: John & Becki Johnston Igli Laci Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:27 Childhood 1:20 University years 2:20 Unifying quantum mechanics 3:23 Invitation to America 4:34 Nazi Party rises to power 4:56 Life in America at the Institute for Advanced Study 5:36 Worries about looming war in Europe 6:14 Marriage and divorce 7:00 Developing the atomic bomb 9:34 Developing the early computer (ENIAC and EDVAC) 11:50 Game theory and nuclear deterrence 15:00 Self-replicating machines and later life 15:58 The future 17:08 Sponsor, Brilliant Special thanks to the Institute for Advanced Study for supplying many of the photos of John von Neumann in our video: https://www.ias.edu/ Select images sourced from Alamy and Associated Press Sources: Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Way in Budapest: xorge, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons University of Budapest interior (three images): Thaler, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1930s images of Nazi Germany: Gas chamber at Auschwitz: Paul Arps from The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ENIAC image from University of Pennsylvania (real life): By The original uploader was TexasDex at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Andrei Stroe using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6557095 Minneapolis federal courthouse: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons John von Neumann gravestone: Antonio Giovanni Colombo, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ via Wikimedia CommonsWalter Reed Army Medical Center: By Antony-22 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96210593Fortune magazine article, “Can We Survive Technology?”: https://fortune.com/2013/01/13/can-we-survive-technology/