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Since 1988, more than 2.5 billion children have been immunized against polio, and an estimated 16 million children, who otherwise would have been paralyzed like me, are walking.
This is four billion hours wasted in this country alone.
And it's 2.4 billion gallons of gasoline wasted.
Eric Beinhocker estimates that in New York City alone, there are some 10 billion SKUs, or distinct commodities, being traded.
And they're being traded by a species of almost seven billion individuals, who are linked by trade, travel, and the Internet into a global system of stupendous complexity.
Let's begin by winding the timeline back 13.7 billion years, to the beginning of time.
So we can imagine the early universe breaking up into a billion clouds.
And that is how our solar system was formed, four and a half billion years ago.
As it copies itself, once in every billion rungs, there tends to be an error.
And we can see this happening over the last four billion years.
We seem to be the only species in four billion years to have this gift.
And then from about 500 years ago, humans began to link up globally through shipping, through trains, through telegraph, through the Internet, until now we seem to form a single global brain of almost seven billion individuals.
We've been on a journey, a return journey, of 13.7 billion years.
And we've got 600 billion dollars.
It cost 2.7 billion dollars.
Today, you can have a complete sequence of the three billion base pairs in the human genome at a cost of about 20,000 dollars and in the space of about a week.
Basically, it took a billion years to have life on Earth.
This is pretty easy biotechnology, and you could basically do this a billion times.
So you can have a billion different viruses that are all genetically identical, but they differ from each other based on their tips, on one sequence, that codes for one protein.
Now if you take all billion viruses, and put them in one drop of liquid, you can force them to interact with anything you want on the periodic table.
And through a process of selection evolution, you can pull one of a billion that does something you'd like it to do, like grow a battery or a solar cell.
Once you find that one out of a billion, you infect it into a bacteria, and make millions and billions of copies of that particular sequence.
But basically you can pull one out of a billion, and make lots of amplifications to it.
There are about a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
There are approximately a hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
100 billion is the only number you need to know.
The age of the universe, between now and the Big Bang, is a hundred billion in dog years.
What you have to think about is we have a universe with a hundred billion galaxies, a hundred billion stars each.
If you come back a billion years later and look at it again, it will be moving away faster.
14 billion years in the past, 100 billion dog years, but an infinite number of years into the future.
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