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W Daniel Hillis – Africa – the most wonderful place I've ever lived in (12/248)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Born in 1956, US inventor, scientist, engineer and visionary W Daniel Hillis pioneered the concept of parallel computers and co-founded Thinking Machines and Applied Minds, which marked a new era in computing and established Hillis as a computing legend. [Listeners: Christopher Sykes and George Dyson; date recorded: 2016]

TRANSCRIPT: So it was just beautiful. And when we... Everything grew. Our bedrooms opened out into the yard and we would sneak out at night and eat strawberries and peaches and things like that that we'd just have little picnics outside. And the floor of the jungle would glow with some kind of fungus or something like that. It was just the most beautiful place I've ever lived. And of course we were always trying to fight back things growing. So I remember once the gardeners, they tried to get the gardeners to make a fence so they cut sticks to make a fence, to fence off the vegetable garden. And then the next morning we came and the fence had sprouted blooms. All these sticks had taken root. I still remember the smell and of all the places I've lived on Earth that was one of the most wonderful.

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