00:00I remember reading an article when I was about 12 years old, I think it might have been in Scientific American,
00:04where they measured the efficiency of locomotion for all these species on planet Earth.
00:09How many kilocalories did they expend to get from point A to point B?
00:12The Condor 1 came in at the top of the list, surpassed everything else,
00:16and humans came in about a third of the way down the list, which was not such a great showing for the crown of creation.
00:21But somebody there had the imagination to test the efficiency of a human riding a bicycle.
00:26Human riding a bicycle blew away the Condor, all the way off the top of the list.
00:29It made a really big impression on me that we humans are tool builders,
00:33and that we can fashion tools that amplify these inherent abilities that we have to spectacular magnitudes.
00:40So for me, a computer has always been a bicycle of the mind,
00:43something that takes us far beyond our inherent abilities.
00:47I think we're just at the early stages of this tool, very early stages,
00:51and we've come only a very short distance, and it's still in its formation,
00:55but already we've seen enormous changes. I think that's nothing compared to what's coming in the next hundred years.
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