The Circle Page #3

into being...

- What do they grow up into?

- [laughter]

Anyway, all right, this is Dream Friday,

the latest in our long tradition

of presenting our newest innovations.

The first Dream Friday

featured Ty Lafitte,

the inventor of True You

and our founding father.

And usually, we feature one

of our engineers or our visionaries

but today unfortunately,

it's just me and for that,

- I apologize in advance.

- [laughter]

- [Annie chuckles]

- [man] We love you, Eamon!

Thanks, Mom.

[laughter]

Now you might not have seen me

around campus

for the last few days,

and maybe you were wondering

just where the heck I've been.

[woman] Surfing!

- [laughter]

- Argh!

- [giggles]

- You got me! Yes, I've been surfing.

And that's part

of what I'm here to talk about.

I love to surf and in the past,

I would have to wake up

and call the local surf shop

to ask about the local breaks,

and pretty soon,

the local surf shop

stopped answering their phone.

- [laughter]

- And then I got a cell phone,

and I could call up my buddies

who were already out

at the beach before me,

and I could ask them,

but they, too,

stopped answering their phones.

[laughter]

And then came...

the Internet.

- [audience cheering]

- Whoa. Oh!

Some geniuses set up cameras

on the beaches,

so I could log on

and get some very crude images

of the waves at Stinson Beach.

It was almost worse

than calling the surf shop.

Here's how it used to look.

[audience groaning]

Almost useless, right?

But now let's refresh that page

and show the site

with our new Circle video delivery.

- [audience murmuring]

- Now that looks pretty good, doesn't it?

Yeah, maybe I should be

out there right now.

- [audience chuckling]

- But would it surprise you to know

that this is not coming

from some big camera

but actually just one of these?

[audience gasping]

This camera needs no wires.

It transmits this image via satellite.

I set up that camera this morning.

I stuck it to a tree near the dunes

with no permit, nothing,

in fact, no one even knows it's there.

And actually,

I was pretty busy this morning

because here's Rodeo Beach,

Montera,

Ocean Beach,

Fort Point.

This is my front yard.

[laughter]

- And here's my backyard.

- [laughter]

Here's traffic on the 101.

Oh, did you think this was just a camera?

No, welcome

to real time analytic processing.

When you see this,

you're also getting this.

[audience murmuring]

Air quality, traffic volume,

weather patterns, biometrics,

facial recognition, saved and searchable,

all to serve you better.

My friends, we are looking

at retailing these in just a few months

for less than a pair of jeans.

- [audience murmurs]

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