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it's that things have reached a stage where there are now
enormous differences happening
much much more so than before it it's only recently been the case
that we can remember everything
about your life
that there's enough
enough storage around to to just never ever have to delete anything never have
to forget anything
it's only been recently that we can
really cheaply have real-time video conferences across the world
we all kind of new it was coming and those of us in the computer
business sort of said it's coming it's coming it's coming
but now it's here
and kind of what's not
here is the
adjustment of our attitudes
towards towards this thing so
you know it was it was nice to say gee in the future I'll be able to know where all of
my friends are
now I can know where all of my friends are and I don't know how to think about that 0:00:58.450,0:01:02.070 somehow the technology has been moving fast but our attitudes and 0:01:02.070,0:01:06.410 our intuitions of that stuff haven't been moving and it's that kinda kind of disruption and %uh
discontinuity that the book's really about
remember %uh
in nineteen sixty four when 0:01:13.250,0:01:17.280 a_t_t_ was going to show picture tell at the world's fair that was the biggest deal going
and then nothing happened for the next twenty years that's right 0:01:21.409,0:01:22.659 because various
%uh
technological growth factors took awhile to reach
the stage
where all of a sudden
these things which
science-fiction writers predicted might someday be possible
you know actually became possible and moreover became possible
over a period of
a very few years
and and and young people you know people who are now teenagers or young or young adults
in some ways have never known the world any differently
than the fact that everything is communicable everywhere instantly everything can be constantly
remembered harry this is fundamentally if i understand your book correctly
this is fundamentally due to the
vast increase in capacity due to moore's law due to better algorithms which you can
explain what algorithms are all of which has created such fantastically immense capacity in such
a very short period is that roughly right i i think there's there's a series of technological
changes and they're driven by some common
underlying
%uh
changes in electrical engineering or advances in electrical engineering so hal mentioned
the first and most important one the capacity to store everything huge
increases in storage
there's huge increases in communication speed the internet now
%uh worldwide
%uh network so the information can be sent everywhere in the flash of an eye
there's huge increases in processor speed
so that the algorithms the processing methods that are needed for
recognizing faces in photographs in doing that kind of thing now actually work though
they've been laboratory exercises for years
and then the fourth thing that has exploded in this
the metaphor of the subtitle of our book which %eh we call your life liberty and happiness
after the digital explosion the fourth thing that's exploded
is the number of sensors that is to say the number of
cameras in people's cellphones cameras that are mounted for security purposes
microphones in your on star system in your car all of these places that are potential
ways of gathering information
that are now
they're now consumer goods they're not just
the instruments of police states or something like that