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...different technology substrates. So on the far left, you have mechanical, devices, you know, that that did the census in 1890. I mean, like, literally, machines going back to 1890. You have the relay based computer that cracked the Nazi Enigma code i
...half life of technology intimacy was fifty years ago. This is all about the way that we interact with our machines and vice versa. Fifty years ago, you had a giant Eniac computer that was like multiple refrigerators. And the way you interacted with i
the same year as Steve Jobs, to come into adulthood just as the personal computer wave is starting. And the fact that he was at a middle school and had this much privilege where he could get access to a PDP 10 at this point in his life to help him un
Each tech innovation from the mainframe to the PC to the client server computing to Internet builds upon the previous one and unleashes more growth and more innovation. And you could see the tech was such a small part of the GDP, but through the Inte
...and technology when I was a kid because my dad was a physics lecturer and he hung around with interesting people. One of his good friends was Nick Phillips who was one of the fathers of holography. So he would bring lasers home and glass holograms an
to the PC to the client server computing to Internet builds upon the previous one and unleashes more growth and more innovation. And you can see the tech was such a small part of the GDP, but through the Internet was rapidly expanding. This was right
the technology would be naturally adopted by the government first, and then later on, big companies would get access, and then later on, small companies would get access, and then later on, individuals would get access, right, if it was a technology
...computers and technology worked. So much to his chagrin, I would, like, tear them apart. I would get on my tool set and, like, start unscrewing everything and literally tear apart these computers. And then I would never put them back together, which
phone, a touch screen monitor that your grandmother or child could use, and then he connected it to the three g network. And so all those barriers were immediately removed and then you hit that mainstream takeoff phase, that inflection where you go f
...about computers and technology. I learned about cybersecurity
And this is again in the nineteen seventies where I'm actively thinking about how computers can, come into it. And it wasn't too long after that where it was in 1975 and, you know, I'm in a summer job in, Santa Monica. You went to GSB to Stanford Bus
...stunning technology. And even ten years ago, there were very credible computer scientists who would tell you that cars would never be able to drive themselves and yet here we are. If I may, I do remember, was it Windows '95 that came with a preloaded
...kinda gets kind of added into the mix. You know, it's kind of another ingredient into into an existing formula. And and, of course, you know, a lot of new technologies are like that. Right? You know, I don't know when I don't know when Flash when Fla
they're interfacing with all of the other supercomputing centers around the world, including like academic research, like particle accelerators, particularly with CERN over in Switzerland, the particle accelerator, which is where Tim Berners Lee is.
...technology, multimedia, Encarta. The heyday of the consumer PC is here in this era. Totally. I mean, even before Windows 95 shipped, they had 75,000,000 Windows users. This is even before you get plug and play or multimedia or networking. Like, this
I think that the full impact of AI is going to take a lot longer than most people think from just reading the newspaper or consuming media. But I do think that ultimately, it will be much more deeply transformative to every business in the future tha
consumer user of technology, of software, of products, of operating systems, maybe you kinda wanted to have, and that was an Internet browser. Yes. It's so funny because we sort of intentionally left all the Internet components out of Windows 95 in t
...back, they knew in the nineteen forties that these were the two paths. Yep. They already they knew what the neural network was in 1943. There was a big argument at the time of whether the computer should be based on fundamentally adding machines, on
Bill was right on mobile that that was gonna be a huge part of the computing landscape. And yet, all of these started at Microsoft five to twenty years before the tech was actually ready, and they would often bet on the wrong standard or paradigm. I
And the moment that happens I mean, when you buy a phone, you know, you'll buy a phone with 64 gigabytes of memory or one twenty eight gigabytes of memory, this thing can easily fit. You know, my WhatsApp messages take up about 10 gigabytes on my pho
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