Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [January 7, 2022]

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Questions include: Could you build a reverse natural language understanding engine? One that would take in Wolfram Language / JavaScript / Python and output natural language explaining what the code is doing? - ​Dr. Wolfram, any suggestion on what problems/case work to use for introductory programming? - Why is is harder to compute integrals rather than derivatives? - Are there any major changes to the design, architecture, or low level code of computers that are now standardized that you would change if you could? - Are there laws governing the development of human history? - Any tricks for reading textbooks that maximize the understanding of the material?