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Inventions, stories, and ideas that don't matter (with Pablos Holman)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Future of Computing

I think in a hundred years from now, we could be in a world where humans have learned to use computers as a tool to figure out what's possible and then go after solving some of these big problems. And I'll give you an example from the epidemiological modeling. When the first Ebola outbreak happened, 12,000 lives were lost. The second Ebola outbreak, I think a couple years later, less only 12 deaths were lost. We're able to use computational models to create optimized ring vaccination campaigns and really contain the outbreak early. That is starting us out on a path that can help us to really eradicate some diseases. Because, you know, these are things that are within our grasp

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