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Today,

partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.

West winds around 15 miles

an hour in the afternoon.

Tonight partly cloudy

in the evening.

Lows in the mid to upper 50s.

West winds... It's 8 a.m.

I'm not home,

but my home knows I'm coming.

The internet is expanding.

And as it does it's giving us almost supernatural powers.

Mmm.

Alexa, you forgot to butter my toast.

I'm not sure how to help you with that.

The internet is no longer just a network

of computers and servers, now it's a network of things.

Things that know us.

Things that know what we like to eat,

how long we sleep,

how to open our front doors,

and even the rhythm of our heart beats.

Alexa, where are my keys?

Your keys are in your bedroom.

At 8:30 a.m. you have a meeting.

The internet isn't just a cloud.

Now its got a body.

A body of devices,

limbs, eyes, ears,

and even a brain.

Each device we connect to the internet

becomes part of it.

But are these devices at our service?

Or are they secretly pulling the strings?

Today the internet is everywhere,

listening to us,

influencing us, becoming part of us.

But if the internet now has a body,

how far can it reach?

The internet is an intelligence amplifier.

But almost everything that you can think of

a positive and beneficial use for

there's also a negative use for.

Humans beings, they don't end

at the edges of our biological tissue.

Tools are appendages, extensions of who we are.

And those tools shape our behavior

as much as we shape them.

As things in our physical life

start to be on the internet and interconnected,

the number of things that could go wrong

is just going to grow.

Little robots are doing more things

for us than we realize.

There are now billions of network sensors.

They make up what is called the Internet of Things.

It's like watching the planet develop a nervous system.

The merging of a lot of these technologies

is going to lead to

the first true machine intelligence.

And then what?

You never can be too careful.

It's about us controlling the devices

before the devices control us.

But we'd never have our smart devices

without the work of one man.

Doug Engelbart.

Doug Engelbart.

Doug Engelbart.

Doug Engelbart.

Doug Engelbart.

Doug was as monomanical as anybody I've ever met.

Through his entire life he was focused on one thing.

Intelligence augmentation.

The notion was that human beings were,

well, pretty good.

But with computers we could be a lot better.

He imagined networked computing in a way

that was both highly technical

and highly idealistic.

Even Utopian.

If in your office you were supplied with a computer

that was alive for you all day,

instantly responsive to every action you had.

How much value could you derive from that?

It was in the fall of 1968

when Doug Engelbart staged what has

come to be known as the mother of all demos.

Come in Mineral Park.

Okay, there's Don Andrews' hand in Mineral Park.

Several thousand computer engineers were in a hall

and they saw Doug Engelbart up on a screen

using a computer to communicate with people

who are not in the same room.

I'd like now to have us bring in

Jeff Rulifson from Mineral Park.

He's sitting at one just like this

and working independently.

Hi Jeff.

Hello.

Heh.

And it was the first time many of them had ever seen

computers as a true communication tool.

Suddenly at that moment that room full of people

began to imagine not just computers,

but computer networks.

Engelbart is actually the person

who invents the computer mouse.

It was kind of like um,

a little wooden box that you

could move around with your hand.

You think about that for a moment.

It's something that really accommodates

the computer to the human body, to the human hand.

You can see the devices that I'm using.

Doug had a portrait mode display,

black on white so it looked like a piece of paper.

It'll copy it.

He invented a mouse so you could point

to things on the screen.

Controls through potentiometer.

He invented hyperlinks so that you

could connect a document to another document.

If I want to I can say, "The library",

"what am I supposed to pick up there?"

I can just point to that and, "Oh, I see",

"overdue books and all."

This was a system which for all practical purposes

was the world wide web in a box.

Thank you very much for coming to

the dedication ceremonies.

Engelbart and his lab actually helped

humanize the computer.

The computer would bring us together.

And by bringing us together would let us

be more fully human.

Steve Jobs was the first one to really get this.

We're tool builders.

And that's what a computer is to me.

It's the most remarkable tool

that we've ever come up with.

And it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Three things a wide screen iPod with touch controls,

a revolutionary mobile phone,

and a break through internet communications device.

Are you getting it?

These are not three separate devices.

This is one device.

And we are calling it, iPhone.

IPhone.

I remember when the iPhone was first announced

back in 2007.

I could absolutely not wait to get one.

And when I finally did get my hands on one,

it felt like I was living in the future.

And now I can hardly remember what it was like

to live without this.

It's a device made out of plastic and metal

that has all the answers,

all the world's knowledge and information.

That can summon cars, that can move mountains,

that can make people do things,

all by rubbing a magic mirror.

And no place has embraced that magic more

than Silicon Valley.

Here you see the smartphone everywhere.

But it's also here that the next generation

of smart devices is currently incubating.

To see them I'm paying a visit to Beta,

Palo Alto's newest analog store, for digital devices.

Hi, welcome to Beta.

Thank you.

Have you been in before?

I have not, I am Derek. Oh, cool.

I'm Katrina, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

Everything here is out of the box

so you can touch it, feel it, interact with it,

see how it's gonna fit into your life.

It's a blue tooth connected device,

so you can create lightscapes.

Bright day, a sunset, date night, movie night.

You no longer have to carry your keys

you can control it directly from your app.

3-D video viewing.

Whoa.

Any command that you would be able

to give your phone you can do through the button.

It will automatically water for you.

You can interact with it, you can touch it and talk to it.

Put it on your keys,

you can put you can put it on your kid,

your dog, your backpack, whatever.

Now we're talking.

I haven't, haven't,

crashed into anything yet!

Oh my goodness.

Whoa!

I want one.

The Beta store feels like a toy store for grown ups.