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Now, I read Peter Singer's book in 1980, when I had a full head of lush, brown hair, and indeed I was moved by it, because I had become a lawyer because I wanted to speak for the voiceless, defend the defenseless, and I'd never realized how voiceless and defenseless the trillions,
billions
of nonhuman animals are.
Social media is I think one of the most extraordinary inventions of our time, and as apps become available that will allow us to out-Siri Siri, better and better, and develop consciousness operating systems, everybody in the world,
billions
of people, will be able to develop mind clones of themselves that will have their own life on the web.
But our [sun] is one of hundreds of
billions
of stars and our galaxy is one of upwards of hundreds of
billions
of galaxies.
When you simply open your eyes and look about this room,
billions
of neurons and trillions of synapses are engaged.
But that doesn't explain the
billions
of neurons and trillions of synapses that are engaged in vision.
Every time we use an antibiotic, we give the bacteria
billions
of chances to crack the codes of the defenses we've constructed.
Life itself has existed for
billions
of years and has continually adapted to use materials effectively.
I mean, evolution has been optimizing them for
billions
of years, right?
Every year, we spend
billions
of dollars, keeping a fleet of nuclear submarines permanently patrolling the oceans to protect us from a threat that almost certainly will never happen.
Two and a half million people will be permanently disabled or displaced, and the communities will take 20 to 30 years to recover and
billions
of economic losses.
And each of those galaxies may contain within it a few billion or even hundreds of
billions
of individual stars.
You might think this is not much, compared to the
billions
of neurons we have.
These have masses millions or
billions
times greater than that of our sun and have event horizons that could span
billions
of kilometers.
Not to mention the millions and
billions
of dollars of funding it takes to go through that process.
And the same is true for translucent solar cells integrated into windows, solar cells integrated into street furniture, or indeed, solar cells integrated into these
billions
of devices that will form the Internet of Things.
And we hope we will be able to contribute to closing the digital divide, and also contribute to connecting all these
billions
of devices to the Internet.
Countless other planets in our galaxy should have formed earlier and given life a chance to get underway
billions
or certainly many millions of years earlier than happened on Earth.
Maybe the real habitable zone is so large that there are
billions
of needles in those trillions of haystacks.
So for all of these reasons, all of these ecosystem services, economists estimate the value of the world's coral reefs in the hundreds of
billions
of dollars per year.
So never mind that they're worth hundreds of
billions
of dollars.
In the collisions between two protons at CERN's Large Hadron Collider,
billions
of particles and antiparticles are produced every second.
Now, that's a story that starts
billions
of years ago.
So, while you're typing, typing, typing, maybe really fast, like 60 words a minute, the CPU is fetching and executing
billions
of instructions a second.
Yes,
billions
every second: instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more.
And so it should be not fearful, it should be inspiring to the same governments that fought for civil rights, free speech and democracy in the great wars of the last century, that today, for the first time in human history, we have a technical opportunity to make
billions
of people safer around the world that we've never had before in human history.
But what will the sky look like
billions
of years from now?
You have
billions
of power-hungry neurons to maintain.
On the other hand, virtually all the atoms you come in to contact with through the course of your life, the ones in the ground beneath you, the air you breath, the food you eat, those that make up every living thing, including you, have existed for
billions
of years and were created in places very unlike our planet.
And let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by
billions
of hearts and minds working in unity.
Billions
of years later, we now extract this precious product by mining it, an expensive process that's compounded by gold's rarity.
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