Chords for VULFPECK /// Barbara

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_ _ [Ab] _ [Db] remember reading a magazine article a long time [Gb] ago [Ab] when I was 12 years old maybe, [Gb] and
it was Scientific American, I'm [Ab] not sure.
And the article _ [Db]
proposed to [Gb] measure the [Ab] efficiency
of locomotion for lots of species on planet Earth to see which species was the [Db] most efficient
at getting from point A to point B.
[Gb] [Ab] And they measured the kilocalories that [Eb] each one expended.
So they [Db] ranked them all, and I remember that _ _ the [Gb] Condor won.
[Ab] Condor was the most efficient
at getting from point A to [Eb] point B.
And [Bb] humankind, the crown of creation, [Eb] came in with a rather
unimpressive showing [Ab] about a third of the way down the list.
[Eb] So _ that didn't look [Ab] so
great.
_ [Eb] But let me do this over again because I'm [Ab] _ just_
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I [Db] remember reading an article when I was about [Gb] 12 years old, and [Ab] it might have been Scientific
American, [Eb] where they measured the efficiency of locomotion for [Ab] all these species on planet
Earth, how many [Bb] kilocalories did they expend to get from point A to point [Gb] B.
[Ab] And the Condor
won, came in at the [Gb] top of the list, _ [Ab] surpassed everything else.
And humans came in about
a third of the way down the list, which [Gb] was not such a [Ab] great showing for the crown of
creation.
And somebody there had the imagination to test the [Eb] efficiency of a human riding a
bicycle.
[Gb] [Ab] Human riding a bicycle blew away the Condor, all the way off the top of the
list.
And it made a really big impression on me that we [Eb] humans are tool builders, and
that we can fashion tools that amplify these inherent abilities that we have to spectacular
[Ab] magnitudes.
[Bbm] And [Eb] so for me, a computer has always been a [Ab] bicycle of the mind, [Eb] something
that takes us far [Bb] beyond our inherent abilities. _
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_ [Ebm] _ [Ab] The Apple II [Eb] could hold [Ab] up to 48 [Ebm] kilobytes of memory, which today doesn't seem like much,
but at that time was maybe three times as much as its competitors.
And that's why [Eb] VisiCalc
was written for the Apple II.
It was the only computer that could hold it.
If VisiCalc had
been written for some other computer, you'd be interviewing somebody else right now.
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