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It was the kind of fight and the kind of choices that everyone here agrees pump up the
cost
of end-of-life care, and of healthcare for all of us.
Of course, these technologies imply a shifting of
cost
and revenues between data holders and data subjects, which is why, perhaps, you don't hear more about them.
It also has very high
cost
implications.
But in our effort to reconfigure how we as a species exist on this planet, we must include and take account of all the costs, including the very real human
cost
of the labor.
The question is whether we are willing to continue our support of a failed strategy based on our stubborn, blissful, voluntary ignorance at the
cost
of the deaths of thousands of our young.
Nobody is going to remember the
cost.
The facts is, a conservation drone doesn't
cost
very much more than a good laptop computer or a decent pair of binoculars.
Now as you can imagine, that is a very time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly process, so we were hoping that drones could significantly reduce the
cost
of surveying for orangutan populations in Indonesia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Many countries that you represent and where I come from struggle with the
cost
of healthcare.
And so we took a step back and we said, "What is it that we are trying to achieve?" Ultimately, in the healthcare system, we're aiming at improving health for the patients, and we need to do so at a limited, or affordable,
cost.
But if you bring back the
cost
side of the equation, and look at that, it turns out, those who have focused on quality, they actually also have the lowest costs, although that's not been the purpose in the first place.
The next big question is, what's the
cost?
Well, it turns out that the
cost
to transport two kilograms over 10 kilometers with this vehicle is just 24 cents.
And it's counterintuitive, but the
cost
of energy expended for the flight is only two cents of a dollar today, and we're just at the beginning of this.
So we said, okay, how much does it
cost
to set up a network somewhere in the world?
Well it turns out that the
cost
to do that there would be less than a million dollars.
Why does it
cost
so much energy, then?
And it turns out that both human and other brains
cost
about the same, an average of six calories per billion neurons per day.
So the total energetic
cost
of a brain is a simple, linear function of its number of neurons, and it turns out that the human brain costs just as much energy as you would expect.
So the reason why the human brain costs so much energy is simply because it has a huge number of neurons, and because we are primates with many more neurons for a given body size than any other animal, the relative
cost
of our brain is large, but just because we're primates, not because we're special.
For example, this system in Guangzhou is moving more passengers our direction than all subway lines in China, except for one line in Beijing, at a fraction of the
cost.
This would be, again, a very low-cost solution if implemented from the start, low cost, pleasant transit with natural sunlight.
Of course, electronic sensors have been around for some time, but something has changed: a sharp decline in the
cost
of sensors and, thanks to advances in cloud computing, a rapid decrease in the
cost
of storing and processing data.
Another medical center, in Washington state, is piloting an application that allows medical images from city scanners and MRIs to be analyzed in the cloud, developing better analytics at a lower
cost.
Wind farms equipped with new remote monitorings and diagnostics that allow wind turbines to talk to each other and adjust the pitch of their blades in a coordinated way, depending on how the wind is blowing, can now produce electricity at a
cost
of less than five cents per kilowatt/hour.
Ten years ago, that
cost
was 30 cents, six times as much.
You can ask questions like, "Who lived in this palazzo in 1323?" "How much
cost
a sea bream at the Realto market in 1434?" "What was the salary of a glass maker in Murano maybe over a decade?"
"How much will it cost?"
And this particular technique is one that's been borrowed from the semiconductor industry, and therefore is low
cost
and can be rolled out in large numbers.
We need quality, cost, reliability, speed.
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