Kwabena Boahen: Making a computer that works like the brain

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I got my first computer when I was a teenager growing up in Accra,

Dobio sam svoje prvo računalo kada sam bio tinejdžer i odrastao u Akri

and it was a really cool device.

i to je bila zbilja cool naprava.

You could play games with it. You could program it in BASIC.

Mogao si igrati igre na njemu. Mogao si programirati u BASIC-u.

And I was fascinated.

I bio sam fasciniran.

So I went into the library to figure out how did this thing work.

Dakle, otišao sam u knjižnicu da shvatim kako ta stvar radi.

I read about how the CPU is constantly shuffling data back and forth

Čitao sam kako CPU stalno prebacuje podatke naprijed natrag

between the memory, the RAM and the ALU,

kroz memoriju, o RAM-u i o ALU-u,

the arithmetic and logic unit.

o aritmetičkoj i logaritamskoj jedinici.

And I thought to myself, this CPU really has to work like crazy

I mislio sam si: ovaj CPU zbilja mora raditi kao lud

just to keep all this data moving through the system.

samo da održi sve te podatke koji se pomiču kroz sistem.

But nobody was really worried about this.

Ali, nitko se zapravo nije brinuo oko toga.

When computers were first introduced,

Kada su računala prvi puta predstavljena,

they were said to be a million times faster than neurons.

rečeno je da su milijun puta brži od neurona.

People were really excited. They thought they would soon outstrip

Ljudi su zbilja bili uzbuđeni. Mislili su da će uskoro nadmašiti

the capacity of the brain.

kapacitete mozga.

This is a quote, actually, from Alan Turing:

Ovo je zapravo citat Alana Turinga:

"In 30 years, it will be as easy to ask a computer a question

„Za 30 godina biti će jednako lako postaviti računalu pitanje

as to ask a person."

kao što je pitati čovjeka.“

This was in 1946. And now, in 2007, it's still not true.

To je bilo 1946. I sada, u 2007. To još uvjek nije točno.

And so, the question is, why aren't we really seeing

Dakle, pitanje jest, zašto ne vidimo

this kind of power in computers that we see in the brain?

istu vrstu moći u računalima kakvu vidimo u mozgu?

What people didn't realize, and I'm just beginning to realize right now,

Ono što ljudi nisu shvatili, a ja tek sad počinjem shvaćati,

is that we pay a huge price for the speed

jest da plaćamo golemu cijenu za brzinu

that we claim is a big advantage of these computers.

koja je navodno velika prednost tim računalima.

Let's take a look at some numbers.

Pogledajmo neke brojeve.

This is Blue Gene, the fastest computer in the world.

Ovo je Blue Gene, najbrže računalo na svijetu.

It's got 120,000 processors; they can basically process

Ima 120.000 procesora, oni u principu mogu procesuirati

10 quadrillion bits of information per second.

10 kvadrilijon bita informacije po sekundi.

That's 10 to the sixteenth. And they consume one and a half megawatts of power.

To je 10 na šesnaestu. I oni troše jedan i pol megavata snage.

So that would be really great, if you could add that

To bi bilo zbilja dobro, dodati to kapacitetu

to the production capacity in Tanzania.

proizvodnje Tanzanije.

It would really boost the economy.

To bi im povećalo proizvodnju.

Just to go back to the States,

Samo da se vratimo u SAD,

if you translate the amount of power or electricity

ako prevedete količinu elektriciteta

this computer uses to the amount of households in the States,

koji ovo računalo koristi na količini kućanstava u SAD-u,

you get 1,200 households in the U.S.

dobijete 1.200 kućanstava.

That's how much power this computer uses.

Toliko koristi ovo računalo.

Now, let's compare this with the brain.

Sada, usporedimo to s mozgom.

This is a picture of, actually Rory Sayres' girlfriend's brain.

Ovo je zapravo slika mozga cure Roryja Sayersa.

Rory is a graduate student at Stanford.

Rory je apsolvent na Stanfordu.

He studies the brain using MRI, and he claims that

On proučava mozak koristeći magnetsku rezonanciju, i tvrdi

this is the most beautiful brain that he has ever scanned.

da je ovo najljepši mozak koji je ikada skenirao.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So that's true love, right there.

Eto, to je prava ljubav.

Now, how much computation does the brain do?

Koliko izračuna radi mozak?

I estimate 10 to the 16 bits per second,

Ja procjenjujem 10 na šesnaestu bita po sekundi,

which is actually about very similar to what Blue Gene does.

što je otprilike slično koliko i Blue Gene.

So that's the question. The question is, how much --

Dakle, to je pitanje. Pitanje je, koliko --

they are doing a similar amount of processing, similar amount of data --

oni rade sličnu količinu procesiranja, sličnu količinu podataka --

the question is how much energy or electricity does the brain use?

pitanje je koliko energije ili elektriciteta mozak koristi?

And it's actually as much as your laptop computer:

I, to je zapravo onoliko koliko troši vaš laptop:

it's just 10 watts.

to je samo 10 W.

So what we are doing right now with computers

Dakle, što radimo s računalima

with the energy consumed by 1,200 houses,

koji troše energije kao 1.200 kućanstava,

the brain is doing with the energy consumed by your laptop.

mozak radi s utroškom energije koji ima vaš laptop.

So the question is, how is the brain able to achieve this kind of efficiency?

Pitanje jest kako mozak uspjeva postići ovu razinu učinkovitosti?

And let me just summarize. So the bottom line:

Dozvolite mi da sažmem. Na kraju krajeva,

the brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy

mozak procesira informacije koristeći 100.000 puta manje energije

than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

nego što mi trošimo s ovom računalnom tehnologijom.

How is the brain able to do this?

Kako to mozak uspijeva?

Let's just take a look about how the brain works,

Pogledajmo samo način na koji mozak radi,

and then I'll compare that with how computers work.

i onda ću to usporediti s radom računala.

So, this clip is from the PBS series, "The Secret Life of the Brain."

Ovo je video iz PBS-ove serije „Tajni život Mozga“.

It shows you these cells that process information.

Pokazuje vam stanice koje procesiraju informacije.

They are called neurons.

One se nazivaju neuroni.

They send little pulses of electricity down their processes to each other,

Oni odašilju male pulsove elektriciteta niz njihove procesore jedne drugima

and where they contact each other, those little pulses

i na mjestima gdje se dodiruju ovi mali impulsi

of electricity can jump from one neuron to the other.

mogu skočiti s jednog neurona na drugi.

That process is called a synapse.

Taj je proces nazvan sinapsa.

You've got this huge network of cells interacting with each other --

Imate ovu golemu mrežu stanica koje vrše interakcije jedne s drugima --

about 100 million of them,

oko 100 milijuna njih,

sending about 10 quadrillion of these pulses around every second.

koje šalju oko 10 kvadrilijuna pulseva svake sekunde.

And that's basically what's going on in your brain right now as you're watching this.

I to je otprilike što se događa u vašem mozgu sada dok ovo gledate.

How does that compare with the way computers work?

Kako se to može usporediti s načinom na koji radi računalo?

In the computer, you have all the data

U računalu svi podaci

going through the central processing unit,

prolaze kroz centralnu procesorsku jedinicu,

and any piece of data basically has to go through that bottleneck,

i svaki djelić podatka u osnovi mora proći kroz to usko grlo,

whereas in the brain, what you have is these neurons,

dok u mozgu imate neurone,

and the data just really flows through a network of connections

i podatci jednostavno teku kroz mrežu spojeva

among the neurons. There's no bottleneck here.

među neuronima. Nema uskog grla.

It's really a network in the literal sense of the word.

To je zaista mreža u doslovnom smislu riječi.

The net is doing the work in the brain.

Mreža radi posao za vaš mozak.

If you just look at these two pictures,

I ako samo pogledate ove dvije slike,

these kind of words pop into your mind.

ove riječi uskaču u vaš mozak.

This is serial and it's rigid -- it's like cars on a freeway,

Ovo je serijski spojeno, i kruto je, kao auti na autocesti,

everything has to happen in lockstep --

i sve se mora dogoditi u pravilnom razmaku --

whereas this is parallel and it's fluid.

dok je ovo paralelno i fluidno.

Information processing is very dynamic and adaptive.

Procesiranje informacija je jako dinamično i prilagodljivo.

So I'm not the first to figure this out. This is a quote from Brian Eno:

Nisam prvi koji je to shvatio. Ovo je citat Briana Ena:

"the problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them."

„Problem s računalima jest to što u njima nema dosta Afrike“.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Brian actually said this in 1995.

Brian je zapravo to rekao 1995.

And nobody was listening then,

i onda ga nitko nije slušao,

but now people are beginning to listen

ali sada ljudi počinju slušati

because there's a pressing, technological problem that we face.

jer postoji veliki tehnološki problem s kojim se suočavamo.

And I'll just take you through that a little bit in the next few slides.

I sada ću vas pomalo provesti kroz to u sljedećih nekoliko slajdova.

This is -- it's actually really this remarkable convergence

Ovo je zapravo izvanredna konvergencija

between the devices that we use to compute in computers,

između naprava koje koristimo da računaju u računalima

and the devices that our brains use to compute.

i naprava koje koriste naši mozgovi.

The devices that computers use are what's called a transistor.

Naprava koju računala koriste naziva se tranzistor.

This electrode here, called the gate, controls the flow of current

Ova elektroda ovdje -- naziva se prekidač i kontrolira tok struje

from the source to the drain -- these two electrodes.

od izvora do potrošača -- ovih dviju elektroda.

And that current, electrical current,

A struja -- električna struja --

is carried by electrons, just like in your house and so on.

je nošena elektronima baš kao u vašoj kući i tako dalje.

And what you have here is, when you actually turn on the gate,

Ono što imamo ovdje jest, kada upalimo prekidač,

you get an increase in the amount of current, and you get a steady flow of current.

povećavamo količinu struje i dobivamo stalan tok struje.

And when you turn off the gate, there's no current flowing through the device.

A kada ugasimo prekidač, nema struje koja teče kroz napravu.

Your computer uses this presence of current to represent a one,

Vaše računalo koristi prisutnost struje da predstavlja jedinicu,

and the absence of current to represent a zero.

a nedostatak struje da predstavi nulu.

Now, what's happening is that as transistors are getting smaller and smaller and smaller,

Ono što se događa jest da tranzistori postaju sve manji, i manji, i manji

they no longer behave like this.

i više se ne ponašaju tako.

In fact, they are starting to behave like the device that neurons use to compute,

U stvari počnu se ponašati kao naprave koje neuroni koriste za računanje,

which is called an ion channel.

koji se nazivaju ionski kanali.

And this is a little protein molecule.

I ovo je mala molekula proteina.

I mean, neurons have thousands of these.

Mislim, neuroni imaju tisuće njih.

And it sits in the membrane of the cell and it's got a pore in it.

I oni leže u membrani stanice koja ima poru u sebi.

And these are individual potassium ions

Ovo su pojedini ioni kalija

that are flowing through that pore.

koji prolaze kroz poru.

Now, this pore can open and close.

Ove se pore mogu zatvoriti i otvoriti.

But, when it's open, because these ions have to line up

Ali, kada su otvorene, ioni prolaze jedan po jedan

and flow through, one at a time, you get a kind of sporadic, not steady --

i zato se moraju poredati da bi prošli, dobijete sporadičnu, neravnomjernu --

it's a sporadic flow of current.

to je sporadičan tok struje.

And even when you close the pore -- which neurons can do,

I čak i kad zatvorite poru -- što neuroni mogu napraviti,

they can open and close these pores to generate electrical activity --

oni mogu otvoriti i zatvoriti pore da bi stvorili električnu aktivnost --

even when it's closed, because these ions are so small,

čak i kad je zatvorena, zato što su ovi ioni toliko mali,

they can actually sneak through, a few can sneak through at a time.

mogu se prikrasti unutra, nekoliko se može prikrasti s vremena na vrijeme.

So, what you have is that when the pore is open,

Dakle, što imamo jest da, kad su pore otvorene

you get some current sometimes.

ponekad dobijemo struju.

These are your ones, but you've got a few zeros thrown in.

To su jedinice, ali dobijete i par nula ubačenih unutra.

And when it's closed, you have a zero,

A kad je zatvoreno, imate nule,

but you have a few ones thrown in.

ali imate i nekoliko jedinica.

Now, this is starting to happen in transistors.

E sada, ovo se počelo događati u tranzistorima.

And the reason why that's happening is that, right now, in 2007 --

I razlog zašto se to događa je što upravo sada, 2007. --

the technology that we are using -- a transistor is big enough

tehnologija koju koristimo, tranzistor, je dovoljno velik

that several electrons can flow through the channel simultaneously, side by side.

da nekoliko elektrona mogu proći kroz kanal istodobno, jedan pored drugoga.

In fact, there's about 12 electrons can all be flowing this way.

Zapravo, otprilike 12 elektrona mogu teći ovuda.

And that means that a transistor corresponds

I to znači da tranzistor odgovara

to about 12 ion channels in parallel.

otprilike 12 paralelnih ionskih kanala.

Now, in a few years time, by 2015, we will shrink transistors so much.

Za nekoliko godina, u 2015-oj smanjit ćemo elektrone za toliko.

This is what Intel does to keep adding more cores onto the chip.

Ovo Intel radi da bi dodao još jezgri na čip,

Or your memory sticks that you have now can carry one gigabyte

ili na USB memorije koje sada nose jedan gigabajt

of stuff on them -- before, it was 256.

stvari na njima -- prije je bilo samo 256 megabajta.

Transistors are getting smaller to allow this to happen,

Tranzistori postaju manji kako bi to omogućili,

and technology has really benefitted from that.

a tehnologija od toga zbilja profitira.

But what's happening now is that in 2015, the transistor is going to become so small,

Ali, ono što se sada događa jest da će 2015. tranzistori postati toliko mali

that it corresponds to only one electron at a time

da će odgovarati samo jednom elektronu

can flow through that channel,

koji može prolaziti kroz taj kanal,

and that corresponds to a single ion channel.

i to će odgovarati jednom ionskom kanalu.

And you start having the same kind of traffic jams that you have in the ion channel.

I počet ćemo imati iste prometne gužve kao i u ionskim kanalima.

The current will turn on and off at random,

Struja će se paliti i gasiti nasumice,

even when it's supposed to be on.

čak i kad bi trebala biti upaljena.

And that means your computer is going to get

A to znači da će računalo pobrkati

its ones and zeros mixed up, and that's going to crash your machine.

jedinice i nule i to će srušiti vaše računalo.

So, we are at the stage where we

Dakle, mi smo u fazi kada

don't really know how to compute with these kinds of devices.

ne znamo zapravo kako računati s takvim napravama.

And the only kind of thing -- the only thing we know right now

A jedina stvar -- jedina stvar za koju za sada znamo

that can compute with these kinds of devices are the brain.

da može raditi s takvom vrstom naprave, jest mozak.

OK, so a computer picks a specific item of data from memory,

Ok, znači računalo izabere određenu jedinicu podatka iz memorije,

it sends it into the processor or the ALU,

pošalje je u procesor ili ALU

and then it puts the result back into memory.

i onda vrati rezultat natrag u memoriju.

That's the red path that's highlighted.

To je crveno označeni put.

The way brains work, I told you all, you have got all these neurons.

Način na koji mozak radi, rekao sam vam, imate puno takvih neurona.

And the way they represent information is

I način na koji predstavljaju informacije je

they break up that data into little pieces

da podjele te podatke u male dijelove,

that are represented by pulses and different neurons.

koji su predstavljeni impulsima i drugim neuronima.

So you have all these pieces of data

I sada imate sve te dijelove podataka

distributed throughout the network.

podijeljene kroz mrežu.

And then the way that you process that data to get a result

I onda način na koji obrađujete te podatke kako biste dobili rezultate

is that you translate this pattern of activity into a new pattern of activity,

jest da prevedete taj uzorak aktivnosti u novi uzorak aktivnosti,

just by it flowing through the network.

prateći samo njegov tok kroz mrežu.

So you set up these connections

Dakle spojite te veze tako

such that the input pattern just flows

da kao ulazni uzorak samo teče

and generates the output pattern.

i stvara izlazni uzorak.

What you see here is that there's these redundant connections.

Ono što vidite ovdje su ove redundantne veze.

So if this piece of data or this piece of the data gets clobbered,

Dakle, ako ovaj ili onaj dio podatka postane izmiješan do neprepoznatljivosti

it doesn't show up over here, these two pieces can activate the missing part

onda se ne pojavljuje ovdje, i ova dva dijela mogu aktivirati dio koji nedostaje

with these redundant connections.

preko ovih redundantnih veza.

So even when you go to these crappy devices

Čak i ako kroz ove loše naprave

where sometimes you want a one and you get a zero, and it doesn't show up,

gdje ponekad želite dobiti jedan, a dobijete nulu i to se ne pokaže,

there's redundancy in the network

postoji redundancija u mreži

that can actually recover the missing information.

koja može vratiti izgubljene informacije.

It makes the brain inherently robust.

To čini mozak nevjerojatno postojanim.

What you have here is a system where you store data locally.

Ono što imamo ovdje jest sistem koji pohranjuje podatke lokalno.

And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless,

Krhak je, jer svaki korak mora biti savršen

otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system

inače gubite podatke, dok u mozgu imate sistem

that stores data in a distributed way, and it's robust.

koji pohranjuje podatke na distribuirani način, i to ga čini postojanim.

What I want to basically talk about is my dream,

Ono o čemu zapravo želim pričati jest moj san,

which is to build a computer that works like the brain.

a to je da napravim računalo koje radi kao mozak.

This is something that we've been working on for the last couple of years.

To je nešto na čemu radimo zadnjih nekoliko godina.

And I'm going to show you a system that we designed

I pokazat ću vam sistem koji smo dizajnirali

to model the retina,

po modelu mrežnice,

which is a piece of brain that lines the inside of your eyeball.

a to je dio mozga koji oblaže unutrašnjost vaših očnih jabučica.

We didn't do this by actually writing code, like you do in a computer.

Nismo to napravili pišući kod, kao što to radite na računalu.

In fact, the processing that happens

Zapravo, procesiranje koje se zbiva

in that little piece of brain is very similar

u tom malom dijelu mozga jest vrlo slično

to the kind of processing that computers

procesiranju koje računala

do when they stream video over the Internet.

vrše dok šalju video preko interneta.

They want to compress the information --

Žele sažeti informacije --

they just want to send the changes, what's new in the image, and so on --

žele poslati samo promjene, što je novo na slici, i tako dalje --

and that is how your eyeball

a ovo je kako vaše oko

is able to squeeze all that information down to your optic nerve,

uspjeva sažeti sve te informacije kroz vidni živac

to send to the rest of the brain.

i poslati ih ostatku mozga.

Instead of doing this in software, or doing those kinds of algorithms,

Umjesto da ovo napravimo u softveru, ili da radimo algoritme,

we went and talked to neurobiologists

otišli smo i razgovarali s neurobiolozima

who have actually reverse engineered that piece of brain that's called the retina.

koji su zapravo sastavili to po modelu mrežnice.

And they figured out all the different cells,

I oni su uspjeli razumjeti sve te različite stanice,

and they figured out the network, and we just took that network

i oni su uspjeli razumijeti mrežu, a mi smo ju samo uzeli

and we used it as the blueprint for the design of a silicon chip.

kao nacrt za dizajn silikonskog čipa.

So now the neurons are represented by little nodes or circuits on the chip,

I sada su neuroni predstavljeni malim čvorićima, ili krugovima na čipu,

and the connections among the neurons are represented, actually modeled by transistors.

a spojevi između neurona su predstavljeni tranzistorima.

And these transistors are behaving essentially

I ovi tranzistori se u osnovi ponašaju

just like ion channels behave in the brain.

baš kao što se ponašaju ionski kanali u mozgu.

It will give you the same kind of robust architecture that I described.

To će vam dati istu vrstu postojane arhitekture koju sam opisao.

Here is actually what our artificial eye looks like.

Ovako zapravo naše umjetno oko izgleda.

The retina chip that we designed sits behind this lens here.

Mrežnični čip koji smo dizajnirali se nalazi ovdje iza leće.

And the chip -- I'm going to show you a video

I čip -- pokazati ću vam video

that the silicon retina put out of its output

koji silikonska mrežnica šalje kroz izlaznu jedinicu

when it was looking at Kareem Zaghloul,

kada gleda Kareema Zaghloula,

who's the student who designed this chip.

studenta koji je dizajnirao ovaj čip.

Let me explain what you're going to see, OK,

Dopustite mi da objasnim što će te vidjeti, OK,

because it's putting out different kinds of information,

zato što to pokazuje različite vrste informacija,

it's not as straightforward as a camera.

nije posve neposredno kao kamera.

The retina chip extracts four different kinds of information.

Mrežnični čip izvlači četiri različite vrste informacija.

It extracts regions with dark contrast,

Izvlači regije s tamnim kontrastom

which will show up on the video as red.

koje će se prikazati u ovom videu kao crvene.

And it extracts regions with white or light contrast,

I izvlači regije s bijelim ili svijetlim kontrastom

which will show up on the video as green.

koje će se prikazati kao zelene.

This is Kareem's dark eyes

Ovo je Kareemovo tamno oko,

and that's the white background that you see here.

a ovo je bijela pozadina koju vidite ovdje.

And then it also extracts movement.

I onda također izvlači pokrete.

When Kareem moves his head to the right,

Kada Kareem pomakne svoju glavu prema desno,

you will see this blue activity there;

vidite ovu plavu aktivnost ovdje.

it represents regions where the contrast is increasing in the image,

To predstavlja regije gdje se kontrast na slici povećava,

that's where it's going from dark to light.

gdje prelazi iz tamnog u svijetlo.

And you also see this yellow activity,

I vidite ovu žutu aktivnost,

which represents regions where contrast is decreasing;

koja predstavlja regije gdje se kontrast smanjuje,

it's going from light to dark.

ide od svijetlog prema tamnom.

And these four types of information --

I ove četiri vrste informacija --

your optic nerve has about a million fibers in it,

vaš optički živac ima oko milijun vlakana,

and 900,000 of those fibers

a 900.000 od njih

send these four types of information.

šalju ove četiri vrste informacija.

So we are really duplicating the kind of signals that you have on the optic nerve.

Dakle, zapravo dupliciramo ove vrste signala optičkim živcem.

What you notice here is that these snapshots

Primjetit ćete da su ove snimke

taken from the output of the retina chip are very sparse, right?

uzete iz izlazne jedinice mrežnice vrlo oskudne, zar ne?

It doesn't light up green everywhere in the background,

Zeleno se ne pojavljuje svuda na pozadini,

only on the edges, and then in the hair, and so on.

samo na rubovima, i u kosi, i tako dalje.

And this is the same thing you see

Istu stvar imate

when people compress video to send: they want to make it very sparse,

kada ljudi sažimlju videe kako bi ih mogli slati. Žele da budu što oskudnije

because that file is smaller. And this is what the retina is doing,

kako bi datoteka bila što manja. To isto radi i mrežnica,

and it's doing it just with the circuitry, and how this network of neurons

samo sa sklopovima, i tako radi i ova mreža neurona

that are interacting in there, which we've captured on the chip.

koji vrše interakciju koju smo mi ugradili u čip.

But the point that I want to make -- I'll show you up here.

Ali ono što želim reći jest -- pokazat ću vam to ovdje.

So this image here is going to look like these ones,

Dakle, ova slika ovdje će izgledati kao ove,

but here I'll show you that we can reconstruct the image,

ali ovdje ću vam pokazati kako možemo rekonstruirati slike

so, you know, you can almost recognize Kareem in that top part there.

tako da, znate, skoro možete prepoznati Kareema u gornjem djelu.

And so, here you go.

Tako.

Yes, so that's the idea.

Da, dakle to je ideja.

When you stand still, you just see the light and dark contrasts.

Kada stojite mirno, vidite samo svijetle i tamne kontraste.

But when it's moving back and forth,

Ali kada se miče naprijed i natrag

the retina picks up these changes.

mrežnica primjećuje te promjene.

And that's why, you know, when you're sitting here

I to je odgovor na zašto samo pomaknete oči

and something happens in your background,

kada sjedite ovdje i nešto

you merely move your eyes to it.

se dogodi u pozadini.

There are these cells that detect change

Postoje stanice koje primjećuju te promjene

and you move your attention to it.

i skreću vam pozornost na to.

So those are very important for catching somebody

Dakle, to je jako bitno kako bi uhvatili nekoga

who's trying to sneak up on you.

tko vam se pokušava prikrasti.

Let me just end by saying that this is what happens

Dopustite mi da završim tako da kažem da je ovo ono što se dogodi

when you put Africa in a piano, OK.

kada stavite Afriku u klavir. OK.

This is a steel drum here that has been modified,

Ovo je modificirani čelični bubanj,

and that's what happens when you put Africa in a piano.

i to se dogodi kada stavite Afriku u klavir.

And what I would like us to do is put Africa in the computer,

A ono što bih sada volio da napravite jest da stavite Afriku u računala

and come up with a new kind of computer

i smislite novu vrstu računala

that will generate thought, imagination, be creative and things like that.

koje će generirati misao, maštu, biti kreativno i raditi takve stvari.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

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Chris Anderson: Question for you, Kwabena.

Chris Anderson: Pitanje za tebe, Kwabena.

Do you put together in your mind the work you're doing,

Spajaš li u svom umu posao koji radiš,

the future of Africa, this conference --

budućnost Afrike, ovu konferenciju --

what connections can we make, if any, between them?

kakve veze mi imamo, ako ikakve veze ima među njima?

Kwabena Boahen: Yes, like I said at the beginning,

Kwabena Boahen: Da, kao što sam rekao na početku,

I got my first computer when I was a teenager, growing up in Accra.

dobio sam svoje prvo računalo kao tinejdžer, odrastajući u Akri.

And I had this gut reaction that this was the wrong way to do it.

I imao sam predosjećaj da je to krivi način.

It was very brute force; it was very inelegant.

Bila je to vrlo gruba sila, nije bilo elegantno.

I don't think that I would've had that reaction,

Mislim da ne bih imao taj osjećaj

if I'd grown up reading all this science fiction,

da sam odrastao čitajući svu tu znanstvenu fantastiku,

hearing about RD2D2, whatever it was called, and just -- you know,

slušajući o R2D2, kako ga već zovu, i samo -- znaš,

buying into this hype about computers.

živio u toj pomami za računalima.

I was coming at it from a different perspective,

Ja sam to doživio iz druge perspektive,

where I was bringing that different perspective

i donosim tu perspektivu

to bear on the problem.

kako bi se nosio s problemom.

And I think a lot of people in Africa have this different perspective,

I mislim da puno ljudi u Africi ima tu drugačiju perspektivu,

and I think that's going to impact technology.

i mislim da će to utjecati na tehnologiju.

And that's going to impact how it's going to evolve.

I da će to utjecati na način na koji mi evoluiramo.

And I think you're going to be able to see, use that infusion,

I mislim da ćete moći vidjeti, koritstiti tu infuziju

to come up with new things,

kako bi došli do novih stvari

because you're coming from a different perspective.

jer one dolaze iz drugog kuta.

I think we can contribute. We can dream like everybody else.

Mislim da možemo pridonijeti. I mi možemo sanjati kao svi drugi.

CA: Thanks Kwabena, that was really interesting.

CA: Hvala Kwabena, to je bilo zaista zanimljivo.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)