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[Gear noises]

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[Gear noises]

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Would you do me favor?

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I'd like to stop talking,
and when I do

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take a look at the room you're in
and above all, at the man-made objects

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in that room
that surround you,

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the television set, the lights,
the phone, and so on,

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and ask yourself
what those objects do to your life

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just because they're there.

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[Gear noises]

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I would say it was a pretty safe bet
that the one magic wish

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most people
would like to be granted,

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would be to be able
to see into the future

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I mean, think what it would mean.

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I'm backing the right horse,
but we can't.

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We have to guess about tomorrow,
and we have to act

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on that guess, and it's
never been any different.

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Nuclear science
has provided mankind

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with immense potential to do good,
to treat and perhaps cure

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some of
the most deadly of diseases,

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to provide virtually tree electricity,

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to investigate the structure
of the universe,

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to examine the most detailed
mechanisms of the human body.

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It has also, of course,
provided the world

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with something else.

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Without long distance communication,

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the modern world
would not function as it does.

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That's obvious.

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Take this equipment,
for instance:

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It's a "receiving system"

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in contact with a navigation
satellites 600 miles up,

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circling the Earth
north-south,

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so that as the Earth
turns beneath it,

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the satellite covers

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[gear noises]

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What you're looking at

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is a bit of paper
with holes in it.

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How's that for a spectacular
way to start a program?

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But, this may be
the most important

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bit of paper
with holes in it

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since the hole was invented.

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It's a punch card,

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and it stands for
one of the most

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[gear noises]

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This is many people's vision
of the world of the future.

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In many ways, it represents
the world we already live in:

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massive, complex, the end
product of everything
technology can do.

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A structure that depends
for its existence

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on the production line,

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and the world
the production line
has generated.

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That production line
has done many things to us

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[gear noises]

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This giant metal box
is one of the reasons

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why the modern world
changes as fast as it does.

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Because of this, people
living in Lima or Birmingham,

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or Chicago or anywhere,
can as easily

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all have the same
japanese model calculator,

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dress in french fashions,
use a telephone system
designed and built in Germany,

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get emergency medical equipment
when they need it,

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[gear noises]

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Have you noticed

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what's happened to plastic
in the last ten years?

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It's become something
in its own right.

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I mean, early on, if you made
something in plastic,

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you had to make it look exactly

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like what it is replacing;
I mean, particularly leather,

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or people wouldn't buy it.

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It's not so long since
the word 'plastic' was an insult.

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[gear noises]

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This is a monument
to one of the greatest

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technological triumphs
in the history of mankind.

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And, for those of us who
witnessed what happened here,

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at 9:32 on the morning
of July the 16th, 1969,

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it's an object
that brings back,

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as fresh as if
it were yesterday,

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one of the most profoundly
moving events of our lives,

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[gear noises]

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Change is nothing new
in man's life.

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When we first appeared
on the planet,

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the world around him
changed constantly.

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But it was the regular,
repeated change of the seasons.

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In himself too, he saw
from generation to generation,

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the same familiar
pattern recur;

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of growth, maturity
and death.

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