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And that, and the perspective of ourselves that we gain from that, may be, in the end, the finest reward that we earn from this journey of discovery that started half a century ago.
By the end of this century, it will all be gone.
We'd hear that little voice saying: "Does it make sense to have a French restaurant, run by a German and a Peruvian, in a city that is not in France, but in Peru?" (Laughter) The answer would come years later, at the beginning of this century, when two important events took place.
They're the materials of the last century.
So I believe that we have an ethic that the Earth grows our food, and we need to move to an ethic in this century that the Earth should grow our homes.
There are a lot of people who created their own vision about the future, for instance, this vision here from the early 20th century.
Ethiopia has had the longest tradition of writing, with the Ethiopic script that was developed in the fourth century A.D. and is used to write Amharic, which is spoken by over 24 million people.
It's actually a nickname given to priests in the eighteenth century."
This is from Thomas Edison, from the beginning of the 20th century: "Sleep is a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days."
What do we do in the 20th century about sleep?
One of the most exciting scientific findings of the past half century has been the discovery of widespread trophic cascades.
This is Picasso, of course embodying so much of it from the 20th century.
When I was at school, the books were transcribed by transcribers, voluntary people who punched one dot at a time so I'd have volumes to read, and that had been going on, mainly by women, since the late 19th century in this country, but it was the only way I could read.
We are going to take a quick voyage over the cognitive history of the 20th century, because during that century, our minds have altered dramatically.
Indeed, if you score the people a century ago against modern norms, they would have an average I.Q. of 70.
Some of the habits of mind that we have developed over the 20th century have paid off in unexpected areas.
Now over the last century, in developed nations like America, moral debate has escalated because we take the hypothetical seriously, and we also take universals seriously and look for logical connections.
The 20th century has shown enormous cognitive reserves in ordinary people that we have now realized, and the aristocracy was convinced that the average person couldn't make it, that they could never share their mindset or their cognitive abilities.
The first half of the 20th century produced the assembly line and the airplane, penicillin and a vaccine for tuberculosis.
In the middle years of the century, polio was eradicated and smallpox eliminated.
This was discovered by Francis Galton in the nineteenth century.
The last parliament of our century opened with our president announcing to the country that this was the most important economic initiative for the country today.
That was in the beginning of the last century.
And if you look at the century from 1950 to 2050, that's the century when we build all the world's cities, the century that we're in the middle of right now.
Every other century was kind of practice, and this lays down a blueprint for how we live.
But then the people that the Romans would have called Scottish barbarians, my ancestors, were actually part of the Industrial Revolution, and in the 19th century, growth began to accelerate, and you saw that get quicker and quicker, and it's been impacting everyone.
And then you and I can help make sure that for Africa, the 21st century is their century.
Now let's go to some newer cities. Six downtowns built across six continents in the 20th century.
Why do none of these places have any of the charming characteristics of our older cities? Or let's go to six suburbs built on six continents in the 20th century.
And when you think about that, ask yourself: Are they condemned to live in the same bland cities we built in the 20th century, or can we offer them something better?
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