Some of you might know it.

Or even Japan!

December 25th, 1945

Vannevar Bush was the U.S. government's chief scientific adviser during the war.

It needs cloudless sky to be really accurate.

The specter of mass starvation loomed.

Let's click down now to the decade scale.

World War II ended in 1945.

World War Two ended in 1945.

They weren't pleasant imperialists.

Prior to World War Il, they were making 1000 planes a year.

In August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and martyrs of Nagasaki

Here we are in 2012, a very futuristic sounding date. And yet I'm beginning with a really quite ancient algorithm.

This is the Joyo Kanji.

that are kind of acting in this part of the world are the United States and the Soviet Union.

World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945.

The Second World War lasted from 1939 to 1945.

Let's start with the world of 1945.

So we can see 1900, it's everywhere.

and approximately 140,000 of them died by the end of December 1945.

And the memex would link information, one piece of information to a related piece of information and so forth.

There's a postscript to the Norden story of Carl Norden and his fabulous bombsight.

On july 16th, 1945, in the mountains outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico, the world's first atomic bomb exploded.

Our modernity has been exceedingly violent.

And then we jump to Von Neumann, 1945, when he sort of reinvents the whole same thing.

RCA, in probably one of the lousiest business decisions of all time, decided not to go into computers.

And that's what all these machines are doing, except, instead of doing it with marbles, they're doing it with electrons.

And 1945, after the war, the electronics existed to actually try and build such a machine.

So we're going to look at some maps of the past, the present and some maps you haven't seen in order to get a sense of where things are going.

So suddenly, it will become kind of radioactive from Chernobyl and the 2,000 or so nuclear bombs that have been set off since 1945.

To put the assumptions very clearly capitalism, after 150 years, has become acceptable, and so has democracy.

Fermi worked on the Manhattan Project in developing the atomic bomb, and when it was tested at the Trinity site in 1945,

The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials helped to preserve the appearance of national continuity while retaining the essential total domination of the victors.

And the first time this really gets tested and 1950 is an interesting year because this is the first time (obviously the US had nuclear weapons as of 1945), but in 1950, the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon.

I've never stormed a beach, but I can imagine that was probably the most realistic reenactment of what it was like to storm the beach at Normandy.

It needs to accept that globalization is above all an opportunity, one that must be grasped by confident, innovative, and entrepreneurial people. Germans need to understand again as they did so well after 1945 that their future lies in their own hands, as citizens, rather than in the power of some remote State.