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What the car really did in the 20th century is it created this carved-up, segregated landscape.
But we also have to acknowledge that all of these well-intentioned rules, they had the tremendous unintended consequence of making illegal the ways in which we used to build cities. Similarly illegal: at the end of the 19th century, right after the elevator was invented, we built these charming urban buildings, these lovely buildings, all over the world, from Italy to India.
So, technology was a big part of the problem in the 20th century.
Or maybe we could design streets with the cobblestone of the 21st century, something that captures kinetic energy, melts snow, helps you with your fitness when you walk.
An invention that would not only allow equal access, but would enable us to build the Italian hill town of the 21st century.
And what is interesting is that often, even if we're in the 21st century, we kind of come down in the end to these ideas of market versus state.
And you have to remember, these women have survived the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
The 20th century was fairly kind to Oklahoma City.
The twentieth century was that century where, at least for those places we know the best, culture moved from this read-write to read-only existence.
So, what we see in the 17th, 18th century is the continued search for medications other than camphor that'll do the trick.
It was founded in the 18th century, the largest psychiatric hospital in the state of Connecticut, other than the huge public hospitals that existed at that time.
These objects, it seemed to me, were quintessentially the kind that I and my liberal left friends in London had always seen as summing up something deplorable about the French aristocracy in the 18th century.
But for me, they summed up a kind of, that sort of sheer uselessness of the aristocracy in the 18th century.
He's a Staffordshire figure made in the middle of the 19th century.
And I got every book I could find about acting, including one from the 19th century that I got from the library.
It became very popular in the 20th century.
Until the mid-20th century, many researchers believed that the specific ways we show emotion were learned behaviors that varied across cultures.
One is the altar tablets of the 15th century, and the other is about 100 years ago, Malevich's abstract compositions.
But a phenomenon started in the 13th century, mainly in the Renaissance, in the West, that caused the biggest identity crisis in the history of humankind.
We have a population that's both growing and aging; we have seven billion souls today heading to 10 billion at the end of the century; we consume natural resources faster than they can be replenished; and the emissions that are mainly responsible for climate change just keep increasing.
Well, if you take agriculture over a century, agriculture in about 1900 would have been recognizable to somebody planting a thousand years earlier.
("What makes a great leader in the 21st century?")
Leadership in the 21st century is defined and evidenced by three questions.
So what makes a great leader in the 21st century?
In the last century, large commercial airplanes have connected cities across the globe.
In the past century, flight connected our planet, in the next, it will reconnect our local communities, and I hope it will reconnect us to each other.
The first is it challenges one of the orthodoxies that we learnt at medical school, or at least I did, admittedly last century, which is that the brain doesn't repair itself, unlike, say, the bone or the liver.
There's a new notation in the 19th century that expressed this, and if you use that notation, the equations get a lot simpler.
RNG: But the ball got rolling a century before.
SP: Still, in every case, it took at least a century for the arguments of these great thinkers to trickle down and infiltrate the population as a whole.
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