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this is a market we're going to walking
and I really highly suggest you just
hold the camera down by your side like
it's off they're very strict about no
camera policy
it's so busy plow the parts to a
remanufactured recycle some are new some
are fake replacement batteries and
screens for Samsung tablets backings for
Samsung tablets then you see back over
there see those big chest escapes over
there all cash
you want to buy cases for your iPhone to
sell like new you can buy empty boxes
these are just empty boxes they're
selling so this woman is selling iPhone
5c so they're not new but authentic
they're used and recycled then a guy
here swapping out parts casually all the
tools you need to repair phones like the
vacuum chambers the wire cutters to
remove the screens jigs to like hold
everything in place in the lineup the
screens the incessant cracking of
packing tape it's a sign of a deal
closed
and then you pop out here in a suburbia
welcome to the suburb oh my gosh I love
center you can't talk bad about center
Trenton started from a fishing village
from 300,000 to 10 million 40 million 20
million no cities in the history of
humans well they felt free no who is
able to do this Google to tell Papa to
feel cool water no I mean put it the
football team kappa kappa kapppa senton
is creating more millionaires than any
other cities in china i mean they can do
everything the factory of the world that
folded them from the service it could be
europe us anywhere else.you about nine
months behind us when you come
technology and i just affect the model
that has been developed each engine can
actually be quite frightening for models
that had already been established and
very successful in other parts of the
world i do think that the core tenants
of sharing IP that they have is
extremely enabled it's a cultural change
it would take a while but the future is
possible
it's not that Silicon Valley got
divorced from technology they're very
much about technology they're just they
just kept moving up the stack and the
key thing that drove that in my opinion
was Moore's law Moore's law is named
after Gordon Moore who was one of the
founders of Intel and like 1960's he
came out with a paper he predicted that
every two years I believe it was the
number of components that could fit in
the same piece of silicon would double
and so in one year you could fit ten
transistors in here two years there
could be like 20 then 40 a decade on
you're talking about like millions and
then billions imagine you have a printer
and your printing pages and you want to
be more efficient well you go from a
12-point font to a 6 point font
I think twice as many characters in one
page and you're getting twice as much
information of your printer all in one
go and that's literally all Moore's law
has been is reducing the font size of
circuits in the 70s and 80s there many
failed research attempts to build
parallel computers by computers that
were like you know the Cray machines and
the Thinking Machines 60,000 processors
and scale up and what you found was that
if you spent more than two years of
research time to try and double the
performance your computer it was by far
cheaper just to sit back and wait and
let guys like Intel it just move Moore's
law ahead and buy the next fastest
processor and so what you found was that
actually being in hardware wasn't
profitable
and so it really sold products back in
the day was features well one of the
things you can do with Windows 98 is
similar to the web you can navigate on
your hard drives using the backwards and
forwards buttons just like we would on
the web first-generation windows that
would come out and a new generation
would be so slow it'd be completely
unusable and then two years later I go
it's actually kind of okay and then four
years later it's like zipping along it's
not cuz Microsoft made it faster the
computers got faster for free and so
people are able to now not have to worry
about writing detailed stuff in C code
they could use high-level languages
they're able to use like webpages and
JavaScript comes along and with all of
that sort of fervor going on and people
chasing that innovation there was no
value in soldering parts it really
wasn't in 1983
worldwide sales with personal computers
increased seventy six percent but last
year the increase was only nineteen
percent and this year analysts predicted
sales growth will flow to about four
percent losses among the two largest
home computer makers through June of
this year surpassed six hundred million
dollars in that building of stuff had to
go to an economy where people were paid
a lot less and what you see is now that
silk around the whole tech ecosystem is
served like driven as far as the road
goes and now Moore's law sort of n is
ending or ended and the car is still
kind of gliding off the cliff right but
there's no more Road underneath it in
there like huh like computers just
aren't getting that much faster anymore
and so now you're seeing people going
through a phase of optimization which is
great but at the same time people are
like ok well how do we differentiate my
product right like optimization sucks
it's not a great business model is now
we have supercomputers in our pocket now
the question is what do we do with it
right and what does that think in my
pocket and I already do and so people
are realizing there's new smart
for hardware we need to have a small
accessory and have like my Fitbit all
these little things little digital locks
my smartphones my sensor networks the
IOT sort of stuff coming up and they say
great we need to figure out how to build
this and now they're coming back to this
ecosystem I mean oh you guys know how to
solder we forgot about that that's
really good
can you help us build these things what
should we say
when I was 18 the first time I go to the
US I use a trash can and I got wood
vacuum cleaner till the very first power
robot you want a robot that's just like
you are slightly better so you always
feel challenged I've dropped out from
University after a first year of college
I decided to go for this path and it's
really nice to be in hacks because hexes
are the best educator and help you throw
X is a hardware accelerator the world's
first hardware accelerator we take teams
that come in with a proven technology
and a prototype and help them to get
ready for market launch we provide one
hundred thousand US dollars we help them
with electrical engineering design for
manufacture industrial design mechanical
engineering their market strategy how
they're going to launch them and for
that we take nine percent equity in the
in the startups
I'm Thomas co-founder of Rove Enzo and I
drove and so we make a big robot we use
kind of special joystick it's usually
used in surgery these things it's a
force feedback joystick the the market
that we targeted the one of nuclear
decommissioning and what you can see
here is a small version of a robot and
now our hacks we are building the very
big version so you can compare the wheel
size that will be something quite huge
the bigger version of the robot will
transport a robotic arm to automate some
of the part of the decommissioning work
engines as as everybody now knows the
hardware capital of the world right so
this has been our home ever since the
starts the reason we come come here and
take the team's here is because of the
ecosystem around which helps them to
build products really fast and from
initial concept all the way up to final
product release into the market Nura is
a headphone company we're making the
world's first tunable headphones they
work out how you hear and provide the
perfect music for you so I can show you
here the hearing profiles of my
colleague Luke and my hearing profile
what you can see is that there is this
difference at certain frequencies
between the way that Luke is sensitive
to that particular note or sound and
that I'm sensitive to it what our
headphones do is sonically mold the
sound and make sure that what we hear is
not too bassy it's not too trebly it
sounds balanced it sounds even and it
sounds the way that it was recorded
anybody who's going through research and
development they're better off doing it
here because they can get things made so
much quicker and so much cheaper I mean
you know you try doing something like
that in the UK and take you around a
month typically to make something which
is specialist from an engineering firm
here you can do in a couple of days
let's say we completely design a new
robot we can get it out pretty much in a
week even if there's ten parts we can
send it out or we can do it ourselves so
you get ten sweetie printers to print at
the same time and you get all the parts
put it together in this fire I never
seen any parallel thing like that when
we were in States for for some of the
standard ports we can order in the
morning and then we get it in the
afternoon or the day after we can get
manufactured part and in a few days in
Switzerland we were planning to do this
robot in nine months and here we have
the opportunity to make it in in three
months so it's really a race if you look
back through the years I obviously
shinjang it became a manufacturing hub
very very quickly and not that long ago
was literally rice paddies
academic wise and in popular media it's
usually summarizing one sentence which
is that shinjin was a small sleeping
fishing village and then because it was
designated as a special economic zone it
became a metropolis overnight that
singular sentence is what I'm trying to
demystify through my work today exactly
how many people lives in Shenzhen is a
mystery the number ten million is used
more as a reference so from three
hundred thousand to ten million this
population grows no cities in the
history of human civilizations we know
that was able to do this prior to 1980s
China was in a very poor economic state
there was a stagnation of industry there
was a plant economy no one was allowed
to own business it was a very poor
country the leaders in Beijing have been
thinking about what can they do to try
to lead the country out of poverty don't
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special economic zones each of them next
to a already developed economy the
ambition was simply what can the country
do to generate jobs to generate economy
to feed the people essentially was a
very actually modest intention but under
the plan economy that was a social
safety net every person was rationed
with food coupons clothing coupons
electricity coupons
it was only in Shenzhen you can buy a
piece of bread with money to be willing
to come to change into the special
anomic zone to try to create something
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it attracted people who wanted to have
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what to me was remarkable about engine
is that even the planners themselves
would tell you that the city evolved in
a way much bigger and faster than they
would have predicted I think it's it's
overly generous thing that chindan was
nothing and then with this setup special
economic zone suddenly it became a city
it didn't there is something else that's
not answered simply by top-down planning
I think for the past pounded years the
Industrial Revolution put us into small
cages hundreds of years of consumerism
has killed a lot of creativity
we have been investing in open source
solutions because we know that when
there are standards and when there are
open source offerings that the pace of
technology innovation and the pace of a
technology adoption accelerates China's
middle classes aside the entire United
States population so even if a small
section of Chinese people had risen to
the upper middle class it's big enough
to create a movement in China itself
that whole movement is now making more
sense to me
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