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So in a world where everyone
buzz about smartphones and tablets,

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I'm here to tell you about
how we are building desktop computers.

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"Why desktop computers?"
everyone always asks.

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The answer is because you cannot enter
the knowledge economy

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without being able to write a CV,

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to do a school research report,
to do a budget.

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To enter the modern economy,
you must have computing literacy.

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Four and a half billion people
do not have access to that.

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Four and a half billion people.

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What's so incredible is that its actually
not that hard to solve it.

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What does that mean?

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How do four and a half
billion people not have it,

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and it's not that hard to solve it?

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The answer comes in the form
of technology that people already have,

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everyone already has a television,
that's a monitor.

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and attached to those televisions
are set-top boxes, cable boxes,

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satellite TV boxes,

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and that little box
is where the magic takes place.

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If you take an iBook from the year 2000,

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your average set-top box today
has four times the storage

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and 60 times the RAM
as an iBook in the year 2000.

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It is a computer.

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So, why is it that all these computers,
monitors, set-top boxes as CPUs

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are not actually computers?

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And the answer
is actually really simple: software.

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We spent about a year
trying to take existing solutions

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and put it on set-top boxes
and make that happen.

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After a year,
we threw it all away, gave up

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and spent the subsequent three years
building that from scratch ourselves.

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A desktop operating system
that is simple enough

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that it doesn't require training,
it doesn't get viruses,

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that runs on this cheap processors
making a computer cheaper than a tablet

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and most importantly, that is
built for users in emerging markets,

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because people in emerging markets
not only can’t afford computers

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they can’t afford access to fundamentals

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like education, health, and livelihood.

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So, a computer can be an answer to that.

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I'm supposed to get on stage
and tell you stories about the seamstress

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that can now have access
to shopping from microfinance loans

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and the farmer who can figure out

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what to plant, when to irrigate,
and where to sell.

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But in the audience tonight,
I actually found a new hero of mine.

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He is a little 12 year old boy,

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who eight months ago
couldn't speak English

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and decided to teach himself English
through his computer

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and I'd like to have you meet him.

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Jimmy please welcome you on stage.

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(Applause)

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Jimmy Calí: Hello!

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Matt Dalio: Tell me about yourself Jimmy.

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JC: Hi everybody, my name is Jimmy,
I'm 12 years old,

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and I really like to play videogames
and read books.

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MD: So, how did you learn English?

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I learned English by practicing,
reading and listening.

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I already ended the program
Duolingo, I practiced in videos,

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Skype, and writing on Whatsapp.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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So he was having a fluent conversation,
I speak Spanish,

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and the conversation was easier
to had in English that it was in Spanish

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because his conversational
English is so good.

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Tell me, how much English
did you know eight months ago?

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JC: I [started] learning
eight months ago, in March last year.

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MD: How much did you know
eight months ago?

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LC: Nothing.

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(Laughter)

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MD: You were saying something
about programming?

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JC: Yes I am learning programming
in Khan Academy.

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MD: Programing? Tell me,
what sort of programming?

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JC: Animation. I really like it,

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it's very hard, but I like it,
and I always practice it.

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MD: My new hero.

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(Applause)

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There are a billion Jimmies
about to get technology.

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It's incredible what we are
about to see as human kind.

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The reason I'm on this stage is to make
a call to the entrepreneurs of the world.

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The this of that, the Uber of X
has been done before.

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Meanwhile, emerging markets have
so many needs and so many opportunities.

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WhatsApp sold for 19 billion dollars,

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the largest startup
acquisition in history.

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Why?

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Because it gave the power of communication
to 450 million emerging market users.

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M-Pesa is a mobile payments platform

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that currently runs 31%
of Kenya's GDP through it.

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The opportunities of our era
exist here, in Guatemala,

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and emerging
market countries just like it,

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and this child right here
is testament to what that means.

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(Laughter)

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Thank you all. Jimmy, you are a hero.

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JC: Thank you very much.

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(Applause)