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More than 50 people deferred two million dollars, and now, more than a decade later, Pandora is worth
billions.
There's a lot of money going to it, there are
billions
of dollars being spent on it; it's a huge business, but there are no experts, compared to what we'll know 20 years from now.
For instance, will we further reduce our nuclear arsenals globally, or will we spend billions, maybe a trillion dollars, to modernize them so they last throughout the 21st century, so that by the time Jasmine is my age, she's talking to her children and maybe even her grandchildren about the threat of nuclear holocaust?
After all, by 2045, we will have held
billions
of people hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation.
They're cute, they're lovable, and judging by the 26
billions
views of over 2 million YouTube videos of them pouncing, bouncing, climbing, cramming, stalking, clawing, chattering, and purring, one thing is certain: cats are very entertaining.
I'd have to arrange
billions
of them just to make one single computer chip.
We have to find a way, somehow, to compel, to convince
billions
of these particles to assemble themselves into the technology.
Then we can use chemistry to arrange literally
billions
of these particles into the pattern we need to build circuits.
"You could be a steward of the power you have to shape the lives and the economies of
billions
of people.
Archaeologists are the cultural memory preservers and the spokespeople for the
billions
of people and the thousands of cultures that came before us.
By creating this platform, we will find the millions of places occupied by the
billions
of people that came before us.
But then, a long time later,
billions
of years later, we got the second replicator, the memes.
And with
billions
of devices such as cars, energy meters and even vacuum cleaners expected to come online by 2020, we thought this was a case worth investigating further.
A promise that over the next 15 years, the lives of
billions
of people are going to get better with no one left behind.
Again, if you think about technological disruption, so if AI and 3D printers and robots will take the jobs from
billions
of people, I worry far less about the Swedes than about the people in Ghana or in Bangladesh.
And inside each one of these incredible machines, there are hundreds of
billions
of tiny particles, dancing and swirling in systems that are more complex than the formation of galaxies.
So why don’t we feel pulled in
billions
of different directions?
Now, if you were to go to a darker part of the sky, a nice dark site, perhaps in the desert, you might see the center of our Milky Way galaxy spread out before you, hundreds of
billions
of stars.
And in this image you can see thousands of galaxies, and we know that there must be hundreds of millions,
billions
of galaxies in the entire universe, some like our own and some very different.
Every single one of the dots in this image is a distant galaxy, millions to
billions
of light-years away with a supermassive black hole at its center pushing material into space at nearly the speed of light.
That's like
billions
of dollars just being wasted each year.
Now, all of this begs the question: What have we been missing by keeping the technologies that we work with day to day invisible, and what, beyond those
billions
of dollars in value, might we be leaving on the table?
To the right of the slide, you'll see figures in gigatons, or
billions
of tons.
And we take it for granted now, that each of these machines has
billions
of transistors, doing
billions
of cycles per second without failing.
And there's really no difference between what he was doing in the computer and what nature did
billions
of years ago.
As we try to build this view, and try to educate ourselves about the enormity of our culture, the information that we have to work with is these gigantic numbers: numbers in the millions, in the hundreds of millions, in the
billions
and now in the trillions.
And it will profoundly affect the well-being, the quality of life of the
billions
of people who are going to inherit the results of our decisions.
They would be investing
billions
of dollars in renewables.
Somehow, within each of our brains, the combined activity of many
billions
of neurons, each one a tiny biological machine, is generating a conscious experience.
An aging neutron star’s furious rotation slows over a period of
billions
of years as it radiates away its energy in the form of electromagnetic and gravity waves.
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