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Units. The shares of hp are jumping up over 6 in the premarket. John thwart is joining us this morning. And i said to john, should meg whitman have done this three years ago . I was going to ask either one of you experts, when was the first time that it was positive or suggested that hp should split into a combination of businesses . I think its ten years, isnt it . Well, they actually did turn into a combination of businesses 15 years ago in 1999. Agilent is getting ready to split off, too. But heres there looking around, what do i do . How about splitting the company into two . It seems like...

Box that produces locally clean water and locally electricity out of any form of fuel. We ran to the view of villages in bangladesh off of the methane gas. It ran for six months without interruption. Con edison cannot do that. [laughter] we think that the 21st century will be about small, distributed systems, personal computing, communication. If we can make a little box that is big enough to make 1000 meters a day, small enough to carry into a clinic or school or village, it would be a pretty neat thing. You can make them the same way that you make appliances, and you do the same thing for el...

If we could make science and engineering as fun, accessible attractive to kids as the other things they aspire to do, well change their attitude. Well change the direction of their life. Particularly women and minorities that really our culture convinces them by the time theyre 10 years old science and engineering a, is boring, and its difficult and its only for guys, white guys. You heard megan smith this morning. You heard a lot of people talk about this issue. Unless we can get our culture reenergized to be passionate about inventing, solving problems, working hard at things that matter wer...

Get the best education you possibly can. Whatever the problem is you are going to face, we have not thought of what that is yet. The people we are talking about will solve them. You have to be prepared for a highly diverse and everchanging set of issues. The best thing we should convince kids to do today is stop playing games as kids and get back to the business of focusing on getting a great education, particularly math science, engineering. And work ethic. Learn to love what they can do. And learn how to make a great career for themselves as they create a Sustainable Future for the world. [a...

Chevy, its volt . Lets go to apple. M. I. T. s john leonard. You see technology for doing very precise localization in mapping. Some of the sort of parts of this whats involved in the google car. So its a different sort of set of techniques and skills than sort of the traditional detroit auto making industry. Tim higgins, i love i didnt think about this but then i saw it. Oh, yeah. Tim higgins came from detroit. You come here to cover apple. What are the similarities between these companies . For one thing apple is a Global Company with a lot of cash. Costs, about 1 billion for a new car to be...