Episode #33: From Mainframes to Minds: Rethinking the Architecture of Intelligence
Welcome to Stewart Squared podcast with the two Stewart Alsops. In this episode, the conversation starts with a personal quest into vector databases and linked data, but opens into a sweeping narrative of how the Internet—built on protocols like TCP/IP and scaffolding like URIs—evolved from Cold War military infrastructure into the backbone of our digital civilization. The Stewarts revisit the intellectual origins of URIs, Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for linked knowledge, and how software layered atop protocol transformed hardware into platforms. They also take a sharp detour into the…
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