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But remember, the
computers
were also physical.
What we're seeing now is that
computers
and radios are becoming so sophisticated that we're developing algorithms to let people own machines, like Wi-Fi devices, and overlay them with a sharing protocol that would allow a community like this to build its own wireless broadband network simply from the simple principle: When I'm listening, when I'm not using, I can help you transfer your messages; and when you're not using, you'll help me transfer yours.
So instead of programming computers, we're using things to program viruses or retroviruses or proteins or DNA or RNA or plants or animals, or a whole series of creatures.
Like every powerful technology, like electricity, like an automobile, like computers, this stuff potentially can be misused.
As an engineer, I'm inspired by this miniaturization revolution in
computers.
But what I told you before about
computers
was that they transformed our lives when they became small enough for us to take them everywhere.
Less than a century later, people repeated that same prediction about cars, telephones, radio, television, and
computers.
So take out your phones, take out your computers, go visit museums.
So, I lead a team at Google that works on machine intelligence; in other words, the engineering discipline of making
computers
and devices able to do some of the things that brains do.
And this makes us interested in real brains and neuroscience as well, and especially interested in the things that our brains do that are still far superior to the performance of
computers.
So now we can just take guesses to minimize the error, and that's the sort of thing
computers
are very good at.
And even touch screens for
computers
and smartphones, that won't break.
You know, we now have, of course, incredibly powerful
computers.
They have a computer company that makes
computers
in South Africa.
This is a picture of a classroom that we outfitted with
computers
in Mexico, in my home country.
We just recently opened a learning laboratory in a school in the West Cape in South Africa, in a school that's called Nelson Mandela School, and when you see the faces and activities of these children being able to access computers, it's just phenomenal.
All of these interactions are literally just changing 1's and 0's on
computers.
It's done through computer code, running on thousands of networked
computers
around the world.
All of these
computers
are collectively confirming who owns what Bitcoin.
This is very close to what these
computers
are all actually doing.
And in the act of solving this puzzle, these
computers
are actually helping to secure the Bitcoin blockchain and add to the list of transactions.
Think about the moment when phones stopped being plugged into the wall by cords, or when
computers
left the mainframe and entered your home or your office.
And when a transaction is conducted, it's posted globally, across millions and millions of
computers.
So if I wanted to go and hack a block and, say, pay you and you with the same money, I'd have to hack that block, plus all the preceding blocks, the entire history of commerce on that blockchain, not just on one computer but across millions of computers, simultaneously, all using the highest levels of encryption, in the light of the most powerful computing resource in the world that's watching me.
Even that middle tier, information processing, that's what
computers
are good at.
So I picked
computers.
"Which news item or movie should be recommended to people?" Look, yes, we've been using
computers
for a while, but this is different.
Take what may be the most important invention of modern times: programmable
computers.
Now, the standard story is that
computers
descend from military technology, since many of the early
computers
were designed specifically to crack wartime codes or calculate rocket trajectories.
Think about it: if you were sitting there in 1750 trying to figure out the big changes coming to society in the 19th, the 20th centuries, automated machines, computers, artificial intelligence, a programmable flute entertaining the Parisian elite would have been as powerful a clue as anything else at the time.
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