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I think one century ago, many people would have said that progressive income taxation would never happen and then it happened.
And for instance, the kind of wealth concentrations that we had in the 19th century and pretty much until World War I in every European country was, I think, not useful for growth.
Let's think about it this way: We are 21st-century citizens, doing our very, very best to interact with 19th century-designed institutions that are based on an information technology of the 15th century.
But a real challenge is to find, to design to create, to empower those connectors that are able to innovate, to transform noise and silence into signal and finally bring our democracies to the 21st century.
This realization was exploited most powerfully for pragmatic ends by the 18th- century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time, institutions had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised was an architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called the panopticon, the primary attribute of which was the construction of an enormous tower in the center of the institution where whoever controlled the institution could at any moment watch any of the inmates, although they couldn't watch all of them at all times.
I don't think this is how we'd want to be remembered, but this is basically what we've been doing to eastside communities for the last century.
When Homer’s Iliad was first written down in the 8th century BCE, the story of the Trojan war was already an old one.
By the time the field of archaeology began to take shape in the 19th century, many were skeptical, considering the epic to be pure fiction, a founding myth imagining a bygone heroic era.
So he was on a hunger strike, and Hazare realized through his hunger that actually maybe this time, in the 21st century, a hunger strike wouldn't be enough.
And remember that in the 20th century, this was not at all true.
In fact, what's interesting about new power is that it eschews some of the professionalization and specialization that was all the rage in the 20th century.
In the late 19th century, when most of the drugs that are now illegal were legal, the principal consumers of opiates in my country and others were middle-aged white women, using them to alleviate aches and pains when few other analgesics were available.
In the 17th century in France, failed business owners were taken to the center of the market, where the beginning of their bankruptcy was publicly announced.
It's a measurement tool invented in the 20th century to address the challenges of the 20th century.
In the 21st century, we face new challenges: aging, obesity, climate change, and so on.
Imagine if we could work together — government, business, civil society, me, you — and make this century the century of social progress.
Now, some diplomats and development experts and specialists, they talk about 40 to 50 fragile states that will shape security in the 21st century.
But at the turn of the last century was the rubber trade.
This is the perfect marriage of ancient shamanic wisdom and 21st century technology.
Antarctica was, for the most part, a century ago, uncharted.
And for more than a century this journey has remained unfinished.
Perhaps the reason no one had attempted this journey until now, in more than a century, was that no one had been quite stupid enough to try.
But in order to get to this limit of two degrees, which is possible for us to survive, the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, defines that we have a budget of emissions of 1,000 billion tons of CO2 from now until the end of the century.
Eve Ensler: You know, I think Carl Jung once said that in order to survive the twentieth century, we have to live with two existing thoughts, opposite thoughts, at the same time.
But by the end of the 5th century CE, the great library had vanished.
We used it in the 19th century to build art museums.
And in the 20th century in America, we used it to build houses.
Vaccines are one of the great successes of the 20th century's public health.
This style of satire was a consequence of the unrestricted democracy of 5th century Athens and is now called "Old Comedy."
But Zen Buddhists practicing throughout China from the 9th to 13th century asked a different question – why do we need an explanation?
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