Cloud
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Now, after 70 nanoseconds, the ball will reach home plate, or at least the
cloud
of expanding plasma that used to be the ball, and it will engulf the bat and the batter and the plate and the catcher and the umpire and start disintegrating them all as it also starts to carry them backward through the backstop, which also starts to disintegrate.
So if you were watching this whole thing from a hill, ideally, far away, what you'd see is a bright flash of light that would fade over a few seconds, followed by a blast wave spreading out, shredding trees and houses as it moves away from the stadium, and then eventually a mushroom
cloud
rising up over the ruined city.
They'll go into our brain through the capillaries and basically connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the
cloud
providing an extension of our neocortex.
Now today, I mean, you have a computer in your phone, but if you need 10,000 computers for a few seconds to do a complex search, you can access that for a second or two in the
cloud.
In the 2030s, if you need some extra neocortex, you'll be able to connect to that in the
cloud
directly from your brain.
I'll be able to access that in the
cloud.
If A is the question, B is the answer, stay creative in the cloud, and you start going, and experiments don't work, experiments don't work, experiments don't work, experiments don't work, until you reach a place linked with negative emotions where it seems like your basic assumptions have stopped making sense, like somebody yanked the carpet beneath your feet.
And I call this place the
cloud.
Now you can be lost in the
cloud
for a day, a week, a month, a year, a whole career, but sometimes, if you're lucky enough and you have enough support, you can see in the materials at hand, or perhaps meditating on the shape of the cloud, a new answer, C, and you decide to go for it.
Now this
cloud
is an inherent part of research, an inherent part of our craft, because the
cloud
stands guard at the boundary.
Every day, we try to bring ourselves to the boundary between the known and the unknown and face the
cloud.
Now just knowing that word, the cloud, has been transformational in my research group, because students come to me and say, "Uri, I'm in the cloud," and I say, "Great, you must be feeling miserable."
But I'm kind of happy, because we might be close to the boundary between the known and the unknown, and we stand a chance of discovering something truly new, since the way our mind works, it's just knowing that the
cloud
is normal, it's essential, and in fact beautiful, we can join the
Cloud
Appreciation Society, and it detoxifies the feeling that something is deeply wrong with me.
So knowing about the cloud, you also learn from improvisation theater a very effective way to have conversations inside the
cloud.
Saying "Yes, and" bypasses the critic and unlocks hidden voices of creativity you didn't even know that you had, and they often carry the answer about the
cloud.
So you see, knowing about the
cloud
and about saying "Yes, and" made my lab very creative.
For example, we were stuck for a year trying to understand the intricate biochemical networks inside our cells, and we said, "We are deeply in the cloud," and we had a playful conversation where my student Shai Shen Orr said, "Let's just draw this on a piece of paper, this network," and instead of saying, "But we've done that so many times and it doesn't work," I said, "Yes, and let's use a very big piece of paper," and then Ron Milo said, "Let's use a gigantic architect's blueprint kind of paper, and I know where to print it," and we printed out the network and looked at it, and that's where we made our most important discovery, that this complicated network is just made of a handful of simple, repeating interaction patterns like motifs in a stained glass window.
Soon enough, after this, I started being invited to give talks to thousands of scientists across the world, but the knowledge about the
cloud
and saying "Yes, and" just stayed within my own lab, because you see, in science, we don't talk about the process, anything subjective or emotional.
I was in the
cloud.
And eventually I managed to get out the
cloud
using improvisation and music.
So my vision is that, just like every scientist knows the word "atom," that matter is made out of atoms, every scientist would know the words like "the cloud," saying "Yes, and," and science will become much more creative, make many, many more unexpected discoveries for the benefit of us all, and would also be much more playful.
And what I might ask you to remember from this talk is that next time you face a problem you can't solve in work or in life, there's a word for what you're going to see: the
cloud.
And you can go through the
cloud
not alone but together with someone who is your source of support to say "Yes, and" to your ideas, to help you say "Yes, and" to your own ideas, to increase the chance that, through the wisps of the cloud, you'll find that moment of calmness where you get your first glimpse of your unexpected discovery, your C. Thank you.
And what I did is I created this word cloud, and I went through all 1,000 words, and I categorized them into loose thematic categories.
I was looking at the news streams and listening to the press conferences of the government officials and the Tokyo Power Company, and hearing about this explosion at the nuclear reactors and this
cloud
of fallout that was headed towards our house which was only about 200 kilometers away.
Now, Roger spooked him, so he took off in a
cloud
of ink, and when he lands, the octopus says, "Oh, I've been seen.
I think of heaven as a really comfortable
cloud
where I can just lie down with my belly down, like I was watching TV when I was a child, and my elbows up.
They don't have any ontic
cloud
of their own.
Another important aspect of this approach is the gathering and mining of data in the cloud, so we can get results in real time and analyze them with our contextual information.
That night, we send all the data to the cloud, and each piece gets checked by an independent team using, for one example, satellite images.
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