Imagine if real time monitoring technology could improve access to clean water

What if it all started here at TED?

Mickey's no kid.

So it's possible to achieve, let's say, roughly 100 fold improvement in the cost of spaceflight if you can effectively reuse the rocket.

Meteorology and the military have a very long history, as I said.

Improvements

The output of E J translation software can be improved greatly by the way the user utilises it.

United States White House, the President Council of Advisors on Science and

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Configure settings that can improve KDE performance

I am for them.

And I'm intrigued and curious about whether we could make technology better by doing a better job at leveraging the human capability with the sense of touch.

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All I'm saying is that you never need to leave the force, all right?

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For the betterment of mankind?

So that when we think about using them to get some systematic improvement, we also think about how they can be useful for self improvement, for self discovery, self awareness, self knowledge.

Which is a little good, but not very much good.

But recently, we've been wondering whether it might be possible to take advantage of this insight, to actually find ways to improve the world, to do something better, to actually fix things, not just understand things.

I mean, look at the time it took to cross a continent in a Conestoga wagon, then on a railroad, then an airplane.

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We try and use our technology to improve our lives in one way or another.

No, what you do, is you go in and you say,

They've gone green since then.

And one of the things that we need to do is, not only fix the fuel efficiency of our vehicles and make them much more efficient, but we also need to fix the economy in general.

It's true, but we think that you don't through the baby out with the bathwater you actually improve.

The situation is capable of improvement.

Bug fixes and improved startup performance

It's actually an idea generator.

Now, that number is going up, it needs to go higher. 60 is not great.

So there is room for improvement

The system is obsolete and needs reinventing.

TR So you're 86 percent accurate right now?

There is ample scope for improvement.

Even if you only cared about AlDS in Africa, it might still be a good idea to invest in malaria, in combating poor indoor air quality, in improving maternal mortality rates.

One very interesting module indeed.

Corporate results in Japan have improved.

The company's profitability improved.

The situation is still capable of improvement.

(Laughter)

And we had progress in the free media.

So that was all very exciting.

This is the first version of my computer voice.

Then I realized that the Pirate Party had registered their own ISP.