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Likely have different technology that's even better and requires fewer resources that we have to start now otherwise we won't get there by twenty fifth that's the main thing we're concerned about because we want to be able to tell the next generation that at least we tried. it's ok here we go i'm so excited. maku skyzoo and his brothers started as hobbyists just tinkering around in a garage they wanted to prove that any car can be transformed into an electric vehicle with the right battery technology and the project is organized we've kept the cars original seven speed dual clutch transmission...

A solution we can implement now of course and see ten twenty thirty years will likely have different technology that's even better and requires fewer resources that we have to start now otherwise we won't get there by twenty fifth and that's the main thing we're concerned about because we want to be able to tell the next generation that at least we tried. it's ok here we go i'm so excited. mockers kaiser and his brothers started as hobbyists just tinkering around in a garage they wanted to prove that any car can be transformed into an electric vehicle with the right battery technology in the p...

>> it gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. >> silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park and the university. that was a hell of powerful combination. >> there were these two cultures engineered with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> there was a lot of counter culture people. so you had cheap semi-conductors. people that would look at things differently than what the conventional person was, and that's what the technology needed then. >> one...

>> there were a lot of people into the changes in technology and how we a part of it, even at our companies we were the fringe element. we had the jeans. we're not managers and leaders. but a clever design on its own had value. >> you had these guys like bill gates and steve wozniak. and bill gates appall allen messing around on the edge of the personal computer industry. but no one in corporate america and no one in most of the homes of america thought that the personal computer was anything that would ever have, would ever even happen, let alone have any relevance to them. >> for all of us, ...

When the chip makers realized the things that the hobbyists were doing could lead to a new product called the personal computer. >> it was at a club where they displayed the computer they'd been working on, and it caused a sensation. >> we had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with these things when we started out. as a matter of fact, the two people who it was designed for was woz and myself, because we couldn't afford to buy a computer kit on the market. we got it working and showed it to our friends and everybody wanted one. >> woz was the technical genius and jobs was the mar...