A short documentary on Conway's Game of Life, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its original publication on the October 1970 issue of Scientific American. 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:00:39 - Conway's Game of Life 00:05:55 - Logic Gates 00:12:31 - Turing Completeness 00:18:14 - Conclusion 00:20:26 - Credits ●●● Credits ●●● Script, Voice, Editing: Alan Zucconi Script Supervision: James Donohue "Life in Life" segment inspired by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFr-vb7XpIWbw8dirvyZk9Q Conway patter by xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2293/ Music: Jingle Punks - "Back of the Room Hang" Music: C418 - "Cat" (Minecraft Volume Alpha) This video was made possible by the support of many patrons on Patreon. ●●● References ●●● (1) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematical-games-1970-10/ (2) http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/docs/VonNeumann.pdf (3) https://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_Volume_1 (4) https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800290.811303 (5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbO0tqH8f5I by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6CQ7_2jmt0q43aW5mDtVA (6) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DmtKtKSrag by Devin Danko (7) https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230 (8) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-0129-1_18 (9) https://www.nicolasloizeau.com/gol-computer (10) https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a-digital-clock-in-conways-game-of-life (11) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world ●●● Social Links ●●● 🐦 Twitter ► https://twitter.com/AlanZucconi 💰 Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/AlanZucconi 🌐 Website ► https://www.alanzucconi.com/