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In that very short learning curve, you've gone from broken organs up to the fact that you're only 10 minutes off the male world record.
No scientists dispute this curve, but laboratories all over the world are trying to figure out why it works this way.
And he quickly surmised an exact mathematical solution that described something very extraordinary: curves so strong that space would rain down into them, space itself would curve like a waterfall flowing down the throat of a hole.
So they're crossing thousands of kilometers in a fraction of a second, and as they do so, they not only curve space, but they leave behind in their wake a ringing of space, an actual wave on space-time.
And one of the major things we can do is move the curve to the left.
What if we could incentivize physicians in the health care system and our own selves to move the curve to the left and improve our health, leveraging technology as well?
Before I talk about that, I've written down at the bottom there the slope of this curve, this straight line.
Why are some of you high above the curve in terms of intellectual, athletic, musical ability, creativity, energy levels, resiliency in the face of challenge, sense of humor?
And the interesting thing about it is that this slide, like so many technology slides that we're used to, is a sort of a straight line on a semi-log curve.
Well the answer is, if I drew it on a normal curve where, let's say, this is years, this is time of some sort, and this is whatever measure of the technology that I'm trying to graph, the graphs look sort of silly.
Now if I graph, for instance, some other technology, say transportation technology, on a semi-log curve, it would look very stupid, it would look like a flat line.
And I think that that's what we're seeing here in this explosion of curve.
As the juveniles are growing up, their horns actually curve backwards.
My good friend Ray Kurzweil showed that any tool that becomes an information technology jumps on this curve, on Moore's Law, and experiences price performance doubling every 12 to 24 months.
Now look at this curve.
I want you to notice two things from this curve.
And also, even though it's plotted on a log curve on the left, it's curving upwards.
And on this curve, riding on Moore's Law, are a set of extraordinarily powerful technologies available to all of us.
(Whirring noise) So the robot is obviously capable of executing any curve trajectory.
We are bending the curve.
We're bending the curve.
So let's abandon the paradigm of let's search for the coolest chemistry and then hopefully we'll chase down the cost curve by just making lots and lots of product.
(Higher frequency) So every time we hit a resonant frequency we get a standing wave and that emergent sine curve of fire.
It can get sideways like a rally car driver, always able to take the tightest curve, even on slippery, changing surfaces, never spinning out.
It has a curve there called the Corkscrew.
So the question is, how can we use technology to push from the left side of the graph, from the blue curve, to the right side with the green curve?
So the goal here is to try and push, and see how far we can get towards the green curve.
This is the curve for Joplin.
And this is the curve for the Dallas tornadoes in April, where we deployed software.
So what a space-filling curve does is it aims to take up all the area it can within one unit square.
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