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🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. Service Now puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform you can |
0:22.0 | use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow. Visit ServiceNow.com |
0:27.9 | slash UK slash AI for people. The house is much the same shape as the house as the Minutemen |
0:35.6 | lived in, but the door leads to a different way of life. |
0:40.3 | Here, light, heat, and energy to help with the housework come in by wire. |
0:48.3 | All in a man's lifetime, electric power has changed the world. But what about the world that Fred Wilson's |
0:57.0 | granddaughter will see? The world of tomorrow. |
1:05.0 | Well, that world of tomorrow? That's now. Electricity is doing more in our homes than they could ever have imagined back in 1952. And some of it's pretty amazing. |
1:18.6 | We can take these solar cells that are only half a micron thick. We can actually laminate them onto a piece of cloth. as a result you can have a flexible cloth solar |
1:30.1 | cell and if you think that's hard to believe it gets even wilder from this old house this this is Clear Story. |
1:47.0 | Your home in a new light. |
1:49.5 | I'm Kevin O'Connor. |
1:55.0 | A lot has changed when it comes to powering our homes. |
1:58.9 | In 1930, around 70% of houses in the U.S. had some level of electric power. |
2:05.7 | It was used to run things like lights, fans, and radios. Fast forward to now, and 25% of homes in this |
2:13.0 | country are powered entirely by electricity. That's all of the appliances, the heating and cooling, everything. |
2:21.2 | And sure, a lot of the things we're going to talk about would be mind-blowing to someone from the 1930s. |
2:27.0 | But some of them would be surprising to a person from just 20 years ago. |
2:31.3 | So what are we using electricity for today? |
2:36.3 | Well, we sat down with Heath Eastman, |
2:41.4 | or this old house electrician, to find out. Heath is out installing electrical service and new technology all of the time. He's got his finger on the pulse of any and everything new his customers |
2:46.6 | want. I had to ask him about the most important use of electricity, at least in my house, |
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