The Network State, IBM and the Birth of BASIC

Happy Friday! Hope you have had a great week. As I do every week, here are my top five pieces of content for your weekend viewing pleasure.

Enjoy!

PODCAST

My last episode in Series 6 comes out next week with the fantastic Deb Liu . In the meantime, check out another great interview from Tim Ferriss with one of the world's most incredible forward-thinkers - Balaji Srinivasan. Watch here and see below (BOOK) for link to Balaji's new book.

QUOTE

Thomas J Watson, IBM

INTERVIEW

Three years ago, mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win one of the field's most prestigious awards - the Abel Prize . In this warm interview, Karen talks through her childhood, what makes a good mathematician, her work and the adversity she faced as a woman in the field, as well as why she wanted to give away the prize money to invest back into under-represented mathematicians.

Watch here.

BOOK

The Network State

This is the fantastic new book by Balaji Srinivasan. Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to start new cities, or even new countries? This book explains how to build the successor to the nation state, a concept we call the network state.

Read the book here.

WATCH

The Birth of BASIC

At 4am May 1st 1964, in the basement of College Hall, Professor John Kemeny and a student programmer simultaneously typed RUN on neighboring terminals. When they both got back correct answers to their simple programs, time-sharing and BASIC were born!

This documentary gives us a glimpse into how BASIC was first created as well as its uses and impact.

Watch it here. Read more about it here.

Have a lovely weekend.

Danielle