Explaining Explanations

For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, oral traditions, ritual and concrete practical wayfinding - and the pace of technological innovation was glacial. But with the rise of scientific understandings our species radically transformed the world within just a few centuries. Why this acceleration of change? Why have we invented or constructed more innovations in the last 30 years than in the previous 60,000 years?

Physicist David Deutsch proposes a subtle answer in the 16 minute talk below:

David Deutsch's 1997 book The Fabric of Reality laid the groundwork for an all-encompassing Theory of Everything, and galvanized interest in the idea of a quantum computer.