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Over the past century the expert has dethroned the educated generalist to become the sole model of intellectual accomplishment.
Our ways of approaching agency and authority turn inside out to reflect the reality that no one has the answers to the challenges facing citizens in this century, and everyone has the responsibility for trying and participating in finding them.
And we will have plenty of computation as we go through the 21st century to do things like simulate regions of the human brain.
The graphic showed massive land loss in south Louisiana and an encroaching sea, but more specifically, the graphic showed the disappearance of my community and many other communities before the end of the century.
By the end of the next century, it's predicted that more than 180 million people will be displaced due to climate change, and in south Louisiana, those who can afford to do so are already moving.
And the world's population expected to top out at something hopefully a bit less than 10 billion, late this century.
Why talk about social-economic movements that may be more than a century away?
Yet by the 11th century, the Vikings had spread far from Scandinavia, gaining control of trade routes throughout Europe, conquering kingdoms as far as Africa, and even building outposts in North America.
That changed after the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century.
By the 8th century, a sailing ship began to make sense: it could go further, faster, in search of newly available plunder.
This is the media landscape as we knew it in the 20th century.
That was the media landscape as we had it in the twentieth century.
The classic media problem, from the 20th century is, how does an organization have a message that they want to get out to a group of people distributed at the edges of a network.
And here is the twentieth century answer.
They didn't really have sides, which are also called temples, or arms, until about the 17th century.
In American culture, 20th century cinema helped popularize eyeglasses.
In the last century, it killed 500 million people.
When philanthropy was reinvented a century ago, when the foundation form was actually invented, they didn't think of themselves on the wrong side of these either.
But by the end of the 20th century, a new generation of critics and reformers had come to see philanthropy just this way.
In the 8th century CE, Vikings surged across the misty seas.
In the town of Jelling in Denmark, two standing stones from the 10th century memorialize different generations of a royal family.
The 10th century warrior poet Egil was a well-known carver of runes.
However, people continued to speak versions of Old Norse throughout Scandinavia; and runes remained in use in rural areas into the 19th century.
Wow, some century."
But every once in a while, like Lizzie Borden, like three times a century, and we're kind of due.
In fact, only one out of these 306 grandparents had died of TB, despite the fact that in the early 20th century, TB caused up to 20 percent of deaths in large Eastern European cities.
You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "What do you do?"
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy.
Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them.
If you look back at the early years of the last century, there was a stand-off, a lot of bickering and bad feeling between the believers in Mendel, and the believers in Darwin.
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