operating in the world today than there are leaves on all the trees in all the world. Now to get here to the studio today, I was driving down the Massachusetts turnpike and it's just wall-to-wall trees on either side of you. And you think there must be unimaginable numbers of leaves, so that statistic must be wrong. But it is right. They're making 13 trillion transistors a day. The numbers are such that if you know you're Heisenberg and you probably know it far better than I do, but you're operating now down at levels which are subatomic. And so things start behaving peculiarly. I mean, it's all quantum, it's quantum mechanics basically, which as Richard Feynman famously said, no one really understands. And how do materials, how does electric current, how does it all behave at that level? Are we possibly reaching a limit in the world of electronic precision? The engineers say, no, no, no, no, no, within this quantum computing there's optical computing. We can get faster, we can get (27/57)
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