Dollars
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Well it turns out that the cost to do that there would be less than a million
dollars.
Obama has suggested 300 million
dollars
in the U.S. budget for these kinds of ideas and structures to move it forward, and a lot of other countries are demonstrating considerable interest.
So for every billion
dollars
we spend in R&D, we're getting less drugs approved into the market.
In real wonder, two years later, I was able to collect 50,000 U.S.
dollars.
This results in eight billion
dollars
in costs for the airline industry globally every year, not to mention the impact on all of us: stress, inconvenience, missed meetings as we sit helplessly in an airport terminal.
Just a one-percent reduction in existing inefficiencies could yield savings of over 60 billion
dollars
to the healthcare industry worldwide, and that is just a drop in the sea compared to what we need to do to make healthcare affordable on a sustainable basis.
In the U.S. alone, the industrial Internet could raise average income by 25 to 40 percent over the next 15 years, boosting growth to rates we haven't seen in a long time, and adding between 10 and 15 trillion
dollars
to global GDP.
At the time, the U.S. government had spent more than two billion
dollars
on electricity reconstruction.
And I took over the organization four years ago and really focused it on developing products that actually reach users, and not just any users, but customers who live on less than four
dollars
a day.
Chances are, if you're living on less than four
dollars
a day, and you're an amputee, you've lost your limb in a vehicle accident.
It can pretty much do anything, but it's 20,000 dollars, and to give you a sense of who wears this, veterans, American veterans coming back from Afghanistan or Iraq would be fit with something like this.
But at 1,400 dollars, it's still too expensive for people like Kamal.
And we've been able to develop a knee, a polycentric knee, so that type of knee that acts like a human knee, mimics human gait, for 80
dollars
retail. (Applause) But the key is, you can have this great invention, you can have this great design, but how do you get it to the people who most need it?
RP: You owe me 24
dollars.
In one of the studies, we bring rich and poor members of the community into the lab, and give each of them the equivalent of 10
dollars.
We told the participants they could keep these 10
dollars
for themselves, or they could share a portion of it, if they wanted to, with a stranger, who's totally anonymous.
Individuals who made 25,000, sometimes under 15,000
dollars
a year, gave 44 percent more of their money to the stranger than did individuals making 150,000, 200,000
dollars
a year.
So now here's a question: if I were to ask you, for example, to make a one-time investment of, say, 200 million
dollars
to buy one of those bottles, so 200 million
dollars
up front, one time, to buy one of those bottles, I won't tell you which one it is, and in 10 years, I'll tell you whether you have one of the blue ones.
And then we did a little more math, and we said, OK, well, that's a fund of about three to 15 billion
dollars.
There's 100 trillion
dollars
of capital currently invested in fixed-income securities.
That can take a vaccine that's suddenly 10
dollars
down to 10 cents, and that's particularly important within the developing world.
We have to move from books to tablets like the Aakash in India or the Raspberry Pi, 20
dollars.
The Aakash is 40
dollars.
Yet we spend 75 billion, that's b for billion,
dollars
a year on state and local corrections costs.
He was arrested, and he was kept in jail on 3,500
dollars
bail, an amount that he could not afford to pay.
And he stayed in jail for eight months until his case came up for trial, at a cost to taxpayers of more than 9,000
dollars.
I was proud to be part of that work, and it changed the laws and it put millions of
dollars
into local communities.
During this period, launching things into space, just the rocket to get the satellite up there, has cost hundreds of millions of
dollars
each, and that's created tremendous pressure to launch things infrequently and to make sure that when you do, you cram as much functionality in there as possible.
All of this has only made satellites bigger and bigger and bigger and more expensive, now nearly a billion, with a b,
dollars
per copy.
So while waste flows southbound, people go north in search of dollars, and most of my research has had to do with the impact of immigration in the alteration of the homogeneity of many neighborhoods in the United States, particularly in San Diego.
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