Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World Page #5

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It's really everyone

from age 10 to age 100.

This idea was impossible

before the internet and

the response was stunning.

Within days, hundreds

of thousands joined in

and they solved the puzzle.

The world responded,

and it was beautiful.

And here is where you'd

design a new molecule

and in many ways we tried to...

subliminally, you might say,

help the players understand

and inhabit the world of the molecule.

So we placed the whole game in this water

and we put all of these little bubbles

in the background,

but they're part of the

story of what's happening.

Each molecule has its own sound,

and these sounds are specifically designed

so that when the molecule is well-folded

they form harmonies.

And if something doesn't fit together

it will form a dissonance.

It's actually kind of

hard to make it do it.

These are real chemical results

of actual molecules that we,

players designed and we built them.

So we say, EteRNA

is played by humans but scored by nature.

In other words,

nature determines

who wins and who loses the game

and that's science.

The solutions of the video

gamers are not just fantasies.

They are verifiable

and can be synthesized in the lab.

Sebastian Thrun is also

reaching out into the world.

Originally he's become famous

with self-driving cars.

My dream is to go and

give every human being a chance

and the best way to do this is education.

So we built this little

company that we called Udacity

that offers education for free.

We have hundreds of thousands of students

staying with us at any given point in time.

We've been amazed how fast

our student base has grown.

There's a real thirst for education, like,

as the machines are becoming smarter

I think people want to become smarter.

People want to make a contribution

and it's harder and harder

to make a contribution today

and it'll be even harder in the future

so we've really got to go and do

something for ourselves

and the best thing we can

do I think is education.

In the very beginning of

my journey into education,

I had a chance to teach a class online

and teach a class at Stanford.

At Stanford you got 200 students.

I considered myself an

extremely great teacher

so I got a large class,

but online we got 160,000 students.

160 thousand.

And when we finally finished this class

we were able to stack

rank the Stanford students,

who are the most privileged

and most selected students,

with the students from the open world.

And the top 412 students,

they weren't at Stanford.

The best performing

Stanford student was number 413

out of a class of 200.

That kind of opened my eyes and I realized,

my god, for every great Stanford student

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