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Rectangle that surfed the web, played music, e-mails, took pictures and had a touch screen. >> we touch it with our fingers. >> reporter: that glass rectangle now copied by everyone while its app store given rise to a 1.4 trillion dollar giant. facetime, video messaging and cameras bringing people from all over closer together while sometimes distracting us from those a few feet away. and on its tenth birthday, here is a look at the original phone that forever changed the way we talk. >> it seem...

Law, named for gordon moore. one who worked add intel. they are getting to the place where they can doublthe computing power of a computing chip every 18 months or so. and this is what really made the power explode. every 18 months these things were getting twice as good. >> you could get the whole computer on a chip. it was less expensive to manufacture. you had smaller which led to faster which led to cheaper. >> under any other field of products things get more expensive over time, houses, re...

Law, named for gordon moore. one of the engineers who worked at intel. the computer engineers are getting to the point where they can basically double the computing power of a computing chip every 18 months or so. power exple.what really made the every 18 months these things were getting twice as good. >> you could get the whole computer on a chip. it was less expensive to manufacture. you had smaller which led to faster which led to cheaper. >> under any other field of consumer products things ...

And what youre seeing at the american heart association, we know more than we have ever have. where have we gone from the data over the last 20 years? >> this data allows scientific research to transform the treatments for patients. if you look at the 40 consecutive years that heart disease rates have declined in this country, a lot of that is because of new technologies and new therapies. but today is a new day, as mike said, with all of this access to new computing power, the technology compan...

Do? it earned money instead of losing it. amazon reported a profit of 17 cents a share. revenue came in better than expected. sales for the quarter up 23% from a year ago. and heres the key line -- amazon expects record holiday season. boom, drop the mike. >> this is why they were hiring or -- >> clearly part of it, so -- >> walmart is doing the same. a lot of these guys are doing the same, they must be seeing something out there. >> walmart is having a problem with its own line. heres whats goi...

America doesnt want to pay for the government america wants and expects. america doesnt want to pay the relatively small amount of money it would cost to bring irs computers into the 21st century, but america demands that the irs work perfectly. even with its ancient computers, the irs should work perfectly. and remember, spending money to improve irs performance does not increase the deficit, because it increases the irs ability to collect revenue for the government. it makes money for the gove...

More power than a military signer computer as late at 1990s. >> we forced saddam hussein out of kuwait, and every said it was because of our amazing computer power, missiles, we were ahead, the playstation now, has more computing power than we had then. >> and hundreds of millions have that, your smartphone is like a supercomputer from a generation agoing, these trends combine to i think, lead to a faster pace of innovation than weve seen. john: some people say that tech growth is slowing. were ...

Station that has more computer power than a military super computer recently as the 1990s. thats only one aspect of it. >> you said in the 1990s we forced sadam hussein out of kuwait. everybody said it was because of our amazing computer power, our missiles. we were way ahead. the play station now has more computing power than we had then. >> hundreds of millions of people have that. your smart phone is like a super cuter from a generation ago. all of these trends are combining to i think lead t...

About? >> well, its really advancing on three different fronts. broadly speaking, i would say machine intelligence is replacing a lot of human labor. some of that is in physical mobility, robots that can do factory work. some of it is in language and speech recognition. most of us now routinely talk to our smartphones and expect them to understand and carry out our instructions. not perfectly, but you can see were in the middle of a ten-year period where a lot of tasks can now be done by machine...

Space program to get man to the moon and back. >> the eagle has landed. remember, computing power continues to improve dramatically every year. now that computers are reaching such great heights, where does that leave humans? heres an example. from the book, when the computer deep blue defeated garry kasparov in 1997 it may have appeared humans could no longer match up against computers in chess. but in tournaments in the ensuing years, when teams of humans and computers played against the best ...