The things that interest me when I'm working are visual structure, surprise and anything that requires figuring things out.

People have a hard time figuring that out.

Egos, systems of government figuring it out massive change.

This is Danny Hillis, and he's figuring out a design problem.

So we needed a social method for figuring out the answer to this.

But it's important to understand that a lot of the origins of our industries even like Henry Ford come from this idea of playing and figuring things out in groups.

What the entertainment business is struggling with, the world of brands is figuring out.

They think, well, you know, figuring out what people think about cola's not that easy.

They're basically attempts at figuring out what people should do instead of rush hour car driving.

We have such a hard time figuring out that learning is not a place but an activity.

Thousands of people are figuring out new ways to learn and, crucially, to respond, completing the cycle.

So this requires figuring out how to get the most out of something's innate properties and also how to bend it to my will.

The junk food industry is really great at pressing our pleasure buttons and figuring out what's the most pleasurable.

It's also going to now happen in virtual spaces, and we have to get better at figuring that out.

The junk food industry is really great at pressing our pleasure buttons and figuring out what's the most pleasurable.

Crucially, we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness with the Earth and every other living thing.

We want to propose, Chrissy and I, through The Institute for Figuring, another alternative way of doing things, which is the play tank.

And she's actually figuring out how to make a collision avoidance circuitry based on this very large neuron in the locust.

And what I want to do in this talk is to split them apart figuring out when they diverge and how they converge.

We've been successful as partners in figuring out which species grow the fastest, and I've just been overwhelmed with how successful this has been.

And in my opinion, we don't spend enough time looking at that natural laboratory and figuring out first what's safe to do on Earth.

Simply put, figuring out how to do one thing often makes it easier to do other things. In this way, a government that is exacting about the quality of its purchases can have a powerful impact on the evolution of its country s comparative advantage.

When they're monitoring your clickstream and you know they are they have a really hard time figuring out your age, your gender and your income.

Another thing that information technology lets us do is start figuring out how to use less stuff by knowing, and by monitoring, the amount we're actually using.

So one fundamental problem that the robots have to solve if they're to be autonomous is essentially figuring out how to get from point A to point B.

If the Atlantic was about my inner journey, discovering my own capabilities, maybe the Pacific has been about my outer journey, figuring out how I can use my interesting career choice to be of service to the world, and to take some of those things that I've learned out there and apply them to the situation that humankind now finds itself in.

And a few years ago, a wonderful researcher named Kevin Dunbar decided to go around and basically do the Big Brother approach to figuring out where good ideas come from.

Most modern production involves not just the cost of doing things, but also the cost of figuring out how to do them. Before aircraft manufacturers can produce and sell a new airplane model, they must spend billions of dollars over a decade or more of development costs that must later be recouped.

I would like to help others rediscover that wonder to want to engage with it, to want to learn, to want to share what they've learned, what they've figured out to be true and what they're still figuring out.

I made a desktop publishing system way back when, and that was, kind of, my first step into figuring out how to oh, these two sides are kind of fun to mix.

NEW YORK Even in normal times, individual and institutional investors alike have a hard time figuring out where to invest and in what. Should one invest more in advanced or emerging economies?

You try things out.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

So here, the robot is not only solving the problem, how to go from point A to point B in this map, but it's figuring out what the best point B is at every time.

Apart from the intrinsic value of the biology and mineralogy and geo microbiology that we do there, we're also using these as templates for figuring out how to go look for life on other planets.

It was something that I've been dreaming about doing my whole life, just driving around the U.S. and Canada and just figuring out where to go the next day, and it was kind of outstanding.

He does great things past finding out yes, marvelous things without number.

He does great things past finding out yes, marvelous things without number.

We sort of worked things out.

They were always trying things out.

So here's how things play out.

Tom likes trying out new things.

Things are getting out of control.

But, in international relations, collective misperceptions can create their own reality. If pundits continue to insist that the system failed, wonks will devote time and effort to figuring out how to fix what is not broken.