I've tried watching some of Stephen Fry's other videos, but, if I recall correctly, his politics put me off. This one doesn't go into politics much. The first part of the video talks about the history of computers and how computer chips are made now, and that portion is the best I've seen. Then he wanders off into AI (Artificial Intelligence) and quantum computing and he gets all spacey.
I don't know if AI is going to do that much for us. It might enable some whiz kids to develop some fancy new stuff that could make our lives better, but we're still going to be stuck with being human beings, version 1.0.
Entertainment is great, but for all it's amazing forms, it's still just entertainment. The real world is still the basis for our lives. No matter how fancy video games become, they will never compare to interacting with real people.
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