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percent of the cost of the rocket.
So it's possible to achieve, let's say, roughly 100-fold improvement in the cost of spaceflight if you can effectively reuse the rocket.
And it will cost you upwards of a billion dollars for that one success.
Well, one way to go faster is to take advantage of technology, and a very important technology that we depend on for all of this is the human genome, the ability to be able to look at a chromosome, to unzip it, to pull out all the DNA, and to be able to then read out the letters in that DNA code, the A's, C's, G's and T's that are our instruction book and the instruction book for all living things, and the cost of doing this, which used to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, has in the course of the last 10 years fallen faster than Moore's Law, down to the point where it is less than 10,000 dollars today to have your genome sequenced, or mine, and we're headed for the $1,000 genome fairly soon.
And by leveraging the power of the iPhone's processor, we can create a robot that is wi-fi enabled and computer vision-capable for 150 bucks, which is about one percent of what these kinds of robots have cost in the past.
And the cost to the world is immense: 260 billion dollars lost every year on the losses to poor sanitation.
It cost nothing.
In college, we've got cost inflation in higher education that dwarfs cost inflation in medical care.
When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously.
But before that, what actually happened was, I used to think about it as, you could take care of your health, or you could take care of obligations, and one always came at the cost of the other.
I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an educational cliff that we are walking over right this very second, and if we allow folks to continue this foolishness about saying we can't afford this — So Bill Gates says it's going to cost five billion dollars.
So for example, numerous research studies have shown if you look at what really drives the growth rate of metropolitan areas, it's not so much low taxes, low cost, low wages; it's the skills of the area.
Well, one obvious barrier is cost.
So if you look at what it would cost if every state government invested in universal preschool at age four, full-day preschool at age four, the total annual national cost would be roughly 30 billion dollars.
And, of course, as I mentioned, this cost has corresponding benefits.
Investing in professional development is not a cost.
Our foundation estimates that it could cost up to five billion dollars.
And they were saying, you know, "The architects, Norman was always going on about designing for the future, and you know, it didn't seem to cost us any more.
So what we want you to do is re-plan our entire building, and we know it's going to cost several million pounds, but we're reconciled to the fact."
What these technologies are doing is radically lowering the thresholds of time and cost and skill.
Quads are extremely agile, but this agility comes at a cost.
That's six times the cost to connect within Africa.
What if we could overcome the problem of unreliable Internet and electricity and reduce the cost of connection?
I will close by saying that, if we solve this for the local market, it could be impactful not only for the coders in Nairobi but also for small business owners who need reliable connectivity, and it can reduce the cost of connecting, and hopefully collaboration within African countries.
That would also increase the catch in these waters, and so would the profits, because the cost of fishing would be lowered.
And because this is such a low-cost system and based in the cloud, it costs, for the entire five countries that Camfed runs this in, with tens of thousands of girls, the whole cost combined is 10,000 dollars a year.
He used one to buy the property, and another, which was in somebody else's name, to pay the huge bills it cost to run the place.
Don't laugh, it cost me 4,000 dollars at the time.
That profit is that small difference between the price and the cost it takes to produce whatever solution business has created to whatever problem they're trying to solve.
The Iranians believed that whatever they did, even if they moderated their policies, the U.S. would continue to seek Iran's isolation, and the only way Iran could compel Washington to change its position was by imposing a cost on the U.S. if it didn't.
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