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This lecture introduces Executors as an alternative to threads, explaining the basics of concurrency properties, the use of ThreadPools, and the encapsulation of tasks in Runnable objects. It covers forking tasks to a ForkJoinPool executor, handling task completion, execution contexts in Scala, and simplifying task execution.