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Well, the argument in "The Blank Slate" was that elite art and criticism in the 20th century, although not the arts in general, have disdained beauty, pleasure, clarity, insight and style.
I have my own answer to that question, which comes from a great artist of the 19th century, Anton Chekhov, who said, "Man will become better when you show him what he is like."
And after a century without fire, dead branches and downed trees on the forest floor, they're at powder-keg levels.
It's a great book, but it's not the correct dystopia for the 21st century.
If we get our cities right, we just might survive the 21st century.
Climate scientists predict that we're going to see anywhere between three and 30 feet of sea level rise this side of the century.
And I would expect that, if our human civilization carries on, then maybe in the next century people will be asking, why on earth did these people today in the year 2003 not see the obvious things that they were doing and take corrective action?
And suddenly, I realized that even in the 21st century, every woman still has a story.
Well of course, in the 20th century, glamour came to have this different meaning associated with Hollywood.
And I don't know who she is either, but this is the [16th] century equivalent of a supermodel.
For over a century, the embryologists had been pondering the mysteries of heart development.
By the mid-17th century, the idea of people building machines that could travel to the heavens was growing in complexity and technical nuance.
And yet, in the late 17th century, this intellectual progress effectively ceased.
And so, for well over a century, the idea of a voyage to the Moon made very little intellectual progress until the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the development of steam engines and boilers and most importantly, pressure vessels.
And Verne's story was not the only one in the 19th century with a long arm of influence.
And if we think of this idea that the stories we tell each other can transform the future is fanciful or impossible, then I think we need to remember the example of this, our voyage to the Moon, an idea from the 17th century that propagated culturally for over 300 years until it could finally be realized.
It took us half a century to adopt the telephone, the first virtual-reality technology.
After more than a century of studying turbulence, we’ve only come up with a few answers for how it works and affects the world around us.
But in the late 20th century, engineers mastered a far superior method of transmission.
And it's because in the 19th century, people would walk around with literally wheelbarrows of cash and just buy voters.
Now, in the 17th century there was a revolution in thinking about space and time and motion and so forth of Newton.
Now, in the 20th century we had a revolution that was initiated at the beginning of the 20th century, and which is still going on.
In the 20th century, we saw the independent development of two big themes in science.
And also, is that in the 21st century our thinking about space and time and cosmology, and our thinking about society are both going to continue to evolve.
And that truth is, or was, in the 20th century, that while we were beginning to develop endangered species movements, we didn't have an endangered people's movement.
And yet the politicization of Never Again, the operationalization of Never Again, had never occurred in the 20th century.
So that was the 20th century.
But it has been amazingly successful in one regard, in that it has become, it has congealed into this endangered people's movement that was missing in the 20th century.
So we have achieved an awful lot relative to the 20th century, and yet far too little relative to the gravity of the crime that is unfolding as we sit here, as we speak.
So by the end of the century, we have 11 billion people, we have wasted ecosystems that aren't really going to be able to handle all the load they have to take from agriculture.
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