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So we decided to see if flies could be provoked into showing the kind of behavior that you see by the proverbial wasp at the picnic table, you know, the one that keeps coming back to your hamburger the more vigorously you try to swat it away, and it seems to keep getting irritated.

So what you're getting is the capability now of replacing one gene with another variation of that gene.

The sequence of events: he'll put together the genomes of the band-tailed pigeon and the passenger pigeon, he'll take the techniques of George Church and get passenger pigeon DNA, the techniques of Robert Lanza and Michael McGrew, get that DNA into chicken gonads, and out of the chicken gonads get passenger pigeon eggs, squabs, and now you're getting a population of passenger pigeons.

You want to work on getting the market for ivory in Asia down so you're not using 25,000 elephants a year.

Three thousand years ago, civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile, some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance, smelling of sheep shit, I guess, proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne, "We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you."

Since the year 2000, since the turn of the millennium, there are eight million more AIDS patients getting life-saving antiretroviral drugs.

It's getting harder to hide if you're doing bad stuff.

And we're getting better and better at that.

And, you know, it's 30,000 kids a year getting very stimulating education.

All of a sudden, a very large percentage of the traffic on the whole Internet, including a lot of the traffic between U.S. military installations, started getting re-routed through China.

So of course, the fastest way to get a message anywhere was to send it to this guy, who would send it back in time and get it there super early, so every message in the Internet started getting switched through this one node, and of course that clogged everything up.

Even after learning a new language and getting a job, their whole world can be turned upside down in an instant.

But getting to freedom is only half the battle.

Making small corrections, maybe getting some input from a coach, learning how to improve your motions.

But if you understood how important meaning is, then you would figure out that it's actually important to spend some time, energy and effort in getting people to care more about what they're doing.

Now, I think a little bit like the IKEA effect, by getting people to work harder, they actually got them to love what they're doing to a higher degree.

So we built a large rotating chamber, and people would come up and spin the chamber faster or slower, adding energy to the system and getting an intuitive understanding of how self-assembly works and how we could use this as a macroscale construction or manufacturing technique for products.

And it's getting very close to what they call the winner's cloud.

And a lot of law firms are getting rid of paralegals because there's software that can sum up case laws and legal briefs and decisions.

It's always a terminator or a matrix or an astronaut getting sucked out an airlock in "2001."

Now the software is also getting smarter, right?

In Rwanda, they are now getting 75 percent of their cooking fuel in their prison system from the contents of prisoners' bowels.

And indeed, what we see is that these areas in red around the outside ribbon of the brain are progressively getting more and more blue until they shut down completely.

You know, I have a lot of cocky freshmen at MIT, so I tell them, "Oh, your bodies are really getting stronger and stronger, but in your late twenties and mid-thirties, cells, they die."

That creates a problem for standard metrics, because we're getting more and more stuff for free, like Wikipedia, Google, Skype, and if they post it on the web, even this TED Talk.

Now getting stuff for free is a good thing, right?

It's being tested for jobs in call centers, and it's getting them.

It's applying for legal, banking and medical jobs, and getting some of them.

I can stream hours and hours and days and days of YouTube video without my computer ever getting measurably heavier.

So they've tripled it, and we're still just getting started.

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