Let me tell you. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. The Information Technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesnt change is our fascination with the socalled nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. This Edition Features a trio of these tech titans bill gates, the man who created the worlds most valuable software company, microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, the young, geeky Computer Programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of google. Well begin with brin. Has there ever been a brand name like google . In less than five years, it went from an idea to a global verb, as in, i googled this, or, i google that, or, i google you. Back in 2006, shortly after the company went public, google opened its doors for the first time and let us google them. We have north america. Oh, look at that. Google cofounder sergey brin is showing us an electronic globe that displays the moun
A lot of cheeseburgers. Let me tell you. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. The Information Technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesnt change is our fascination with the socalled nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. This Edition Features a trio of these tech titans bill gates, the man who created the worlds most valuable software company, microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, the young, geeky Computer Programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of google. Well begin with brin. Has there ever been a brand name like google . In less than five years, it went from an idea to a global verb, as in, i googled this, or, i google that, or, i google you. Back in 2006, shortly after the company went public, google opened its doors for the first time and let us google them. We have north america. Oh, look at that. Google cofounder sergey brin is showing us an electronic glob
Each week american artifacts visits locations across the country. The archive offers permanent access for scholars, historians and the general public. The idea is to try to build the Library Version two. Can you go and make all of the books, music, video available to all those that are interested enough. We are trying to do the pieces that are missing. Maybe the historical pieces or the large scale hosting materials or taking the materials of people that people are puting up on their websites every day. The archive is large servers but also physical holdings of books, music, video, and offering them for free Public Access anywhere in the world. The digital materials are on servers that are here in a church that we have bought in San Francisco. We have converted a church to be a library. I love looking at them. They have lights on them. Every time a light blinks it is someone uploading or downloading something. We get ten to fifteen million books downloaded a month. Concert recordings a
Them for free Public Access anywhere in the world. The digital materials are on a church weve brought in San Francisco. I love looking at them. Every time the light blinks someone is uploading or downloading from the archive. We get 3 Million Viewers a day. Books aloan we get 10 to 15 million books a month download ed from the internet archive. We have the primary servers here. We have backup servers in richmond, california and in redwood city. We have a partial copy in egypt and amsterdam. The idea is to have copies in other places so that we dont have the fate of burning and disappearing. It has been my idea to try to take advantage of this change that we can actually store things online and make them broadly available. It was always in the air. The promise of having the library of congress on your desk forever. It was like why dont we just go and build that . It has been a long journey and then building some of the computers and systems that became the worldwide web. The early days
My family, you know, they got kicked out. There was a terrible dictator. And my family had to leave. And my mother and her family, we settled in mecca for dominicans at the time was washington heights. And so to be there yesterday was a wonderful reminder of how far weve come. And frankly, how far we need to go. And i look at some of the metrics of progress, and arne duncan probably talked to you this morning about the fact that we reduced the latino dropout rate by 50 over the last ten years. You look at the aca data, and the uninsurance rate. Latinos are the most uninsured of any population. But thats gone down by roughly 20 in the last year. Thanks to so many people in this room, thanks to the leadership of president obama, and thanks to so many folks who got out there and got the word out in our communities. Were going to keep doing that under the leadership of secretary burwell as we move forward. Thats a real point of pride. You look at poverty reduction. Weve had the largest red