Now let's go up to the Arctic Circle.

What is my alternative investment?

And what we'll do in future videos is we'll actually explore situations in which that does happen.

Twenty one countries came together. Dozens of teams.

Come on, hurry!

Competition is not by nature evil.

Japan is highly competitive in high technology industries.

well, over here, every piece of car a man might want or need.

It's sexist. It's heterosexist.

That's often given to the girl.

And what we did was a couple of very counter intuitive things.

The Williams sisters compete one wins Wimbledon.

A competitor?

Even to be born, one had to race 300 million sperms

The infrastructure is a huge deal.

But the interesting thing about it is the commercial guys are going to go first.

What if several of the high net worth companies and individuals who are here at TED decided that they would create, band together, just a couple of them, and create a national competition to the governors to have a race to the top and see how the governors respond?

It exploded an arms race.

A bidding war?

He won the race with ease.

She set a new Japanese record in the 100 meter dash.

Come on, guys, it's not a race.

Through the eyes of the hometown gal.

And now everybody can hear Count Basie and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.

Come on, you scurvy scum! I'll race you!

I had a race with him.

I'm sick of struggling for survival.

We're outgunned.

less capital intensive that there's less money that's required

It was now a race against time.

Man, the competition just sucks now.

When you have huge returns, as Sal's Cupcakes had in this video or in this worksheet over here

Race you the last lap.

Ok Clone, let's have a race.

Last one to the door is roadkill.

Hey, you want to race? Oh, please.

There's your competition.

This isn't a race.

They were my competition.

Women are always competing with each other.

Japan's competitiveness in camera making is unchallenged.

The competition has become fierce.

One man alone challenge the machine.

So, a new social phenomenon is emerging.

Technology, those billions connected, abundant knowledge provides incredible opportunities not simply to compete but also to realize that networks are going to be important.