Then I thought about the craziest idea of all the ideas

I don't think that will happen soon.

It is down cycled and turned into lesser things, while a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again or can be used again a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.

That's the quest.

Produced in conjunction with the Academy's Science and Technology Council. (Applause) 'It is today possible to realize the most impossible and improbable things.' Georges Méliès

I hope the questions will give me an opportunity.

And so one of the things that I think we're learning if you think about, like, Wikipedia, it's something that was simply impossible.

I know for a fact that that is ridiculous.

I think about it in this really scientific way of measuring my impact, and this shows that it's possible.

I'm limited by the technology of my time.

Last year, I told you the story, in seven minutes, of Project Orion, which was this very implausible technology that technically could have worked, but it had this one year political window where it could have happened.

Millennium Development Goal rates for child mortality is fully possible.

You want a little more raspberry, a little more chocolate here or there?

Create a space for an office, a space of sustainability that really works between that virtuality and yet can be realized as something real.

How many people told him he couldn't do that, that he would die if tried that?

Plants need water and nutrients.

It's so simple bookshelves, with special books on the stage.

We want to match the hour by hour power supply.

I don't have enough time to get 5 rabbits.

This was in 2004 at that time, this was something really, really revolutionary.

I conceived of that as my job.

We think now that a lobectomy may be a viable option.

I'm calling it bioinformed design, and I think it's possible.

In the case of design, that means balancing desirability, what humans need, with technical feasibility, and economic viability.

Now, I even see a world where editing memories is something of a reality, because we're living in a time where it's possible to pluck questions from the tree of science fiction and to ground them in experimental reality.

And I know that 10 years ago, if I had told you that this was all coming, you would have said that that's impossible.

I mean, people didn't build iPods for 10,000 dollars 10 years ago.

And I believe that, working together, we can make all of these things happen.

Well, it may well be that over time when the program is maintained, the error actually becomes executable and then it can actually cause a failure.

And through this technology, being able to be an active participant in their grandchildren's lives in a way that's not possible today.

However it looks, we're not sure, but it looks like this is not actually possible in the real world.

Scientists, you know, made World War II as we know it quite possible.

This leads to an important distinction in computer science between what's possible versus what's possible in a reasonable amount of time.

So I wrote to the bank, and they thought for a while, and they said,

For the moment, we can't rule out any possibilities.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

And I found that industrial productivity can be achieved on a small scale.

Now here at TED, over the last couple of days,

That is the key to understanding the enormous power of consciousness.

Now, you can do a little bit better than this using the Fibonacci heap idea that I was mentioning before but may be this is the best that you can do in terms of practically implementable code.

Executable Scripts

I'll just show you some of the experiments.

Good to go, ma'am.

gt gt Vic Gundotra Now, we have one more Google announcement today.

I should add that this started out as a much longer list of wishes.