Exploration through technical creativity
Historic: first tools, fire, neolithic revolution, irrigation, navigation, invention of writing, iron, gunpowder, windmill, compass, mechanical clock, drawings and sketches for machines, printing press, steam engine, railways, steamboat, photography, reaper, telegraph, telephone, internal combustion engine, electric lighting, automobile, radio, airplane, rocket, television, electronic computer, nuclear energy, transistor, space flight, personal computer, Internet, biotechnology, CRISPR, artificial intelligence
Notable achievements: information technology, artificial intelligence and automation, biotechnology and medicine, renewable energies and sustainability, space exploration and astronomy; Classical technology, Biotechnologies, IT/AI technology
Exemplary stories: Building the Great Pyramids of Giza; Building the Great Wall of China; Building the Parthenon Temple in Athens; Construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; The Expeditions of Marco Polo; The story of Nikola Tesla; The Story of Project Apollo; Charles Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle; Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin; Understanding cell structure and function; The discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin; The Story of Craig Venter and the Sequencing of the Human Genome; Development of CRISPR-Cas9 technology for genome editing; Stories of pioneers in stem cell research; The Story of Biotechnology and Regenerative Medicine; Developing vaccines that have saved lives; The story of Alan Turing and the development of modern computing; The story of Silicon Valley and tech entrepreneurs; The Internet Revolution and the World Wide Web; The story of Tim Berners‑Lee; The history of Apple and Steve Jobs; The story of Mark Zuckerberg and the development of Facebook; The story of Elon Musk and his innovative projects; The AlphaGo algorithm and its victory against the world Go champion; Siri and the rise of virtual personal assistants; Watson and his Jeopardy! victory; Self-driving cars and self-driving car racing; The Internet of Things (IoT) and the evolution of interconnectivity; The story of robotics in medicine; The Story of Machine Learning;
Portrait gallery: Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, Craig Venter, Jennifer Doudna, George Church, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Tim Berners‑Lee, Jeff Bezos, the most famous Romanian inventors and discoverers and their achievements
Exploration through Imaginary/Speculative Fiction: fiction books, documentaries, art films, computer games
Unclear hypotheses / conspiracies / mysteries: the assumption that there are secret organizations and governments that possess advanced technology that is inaccessible to the public; unclear assumptions regarding genetic manipulation and modification of living organisms; assumptions according to which personal data and information are handled and controlled; theories about the existence of a superior extraterrestrial intelligence secretly manipulating our evolution
Perspective: collaboration and interdisciplinarity, fascinating opportunities for scientific innovation and potential breakthrough discoveries