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It changes about a third of the way into the 20th century, when this became one of the primary venues for music.
I'm going to talk about the simple truth in leadership in the 21st century.
Could this little country, like a startup in a mature industry, be the spark plug that influences a 21st century of middle-class in China and India?
So mass education started with social entrepreneurship in the 19th century.
Almost all our effort goes in this box, sustaining innovation in formal settings, getting a better version of the essentially Bismarckian school system that developed in the 19th century.
But it is, unlike cars, which have developed so rapidly and orderly, actually the school system is recognizably an inheritance from the 19th century, from a Bismarkian model of German schooling that got taken up by English reformers, and often by religious missionaries, taken up in the United States as a force of social cohesion, and then in Japan and South Korea as they developed.
It's recognizably 19th century in its roots.
And we are bequeathing to the developing world school systems that they will now spend a century trying to reform.
Now, that free time existed in the 20th century, but we didn't get Ushahidi in the 20th century.
The media landscape in the 20th century was very good at helping people consume, and we got, as a result, very good at consuming.
Awful things will happen in this century, I'm absolutely sure.
And that especially happened in the last 10 years, at the end of the 20th century, when the beautiful developments due to molecular biology, understanding the code of life, DNA, all of that seemed to actually put us, not closer, but further apart from answering those basic questions.
We're in 17th century Japan on the west coast, and a little, wizened monk is hurrying along, near midnight, to the crest of a small hill.
Maybe they looked at all that food we offered them and said, "Thanks, I'm going to speed up so much that I'm going to make a new cell next century.
And that is that the central moral challenge of this century is gender inequity.
In the 19th century, it was slavery.
In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism.
For instance, in the last half-century, more girls were discriminated to death than all the people killed on all the battlefields in the 20th century.
Consider, the single most successful international environmental effort of the 20th century, the Montreal Protocol, in which the nations of Earth banded together to protect the planet from the harmful effects of ozone-destroying chemicals used at that time in air conditioners, refrigerators and other cooling devices.
The majority of the environmental impacts on the planet have been caused by the rich minority, the 20 percent that jumped onto the industrial bandwagon in the mid-18th century.
And perhaps also, there's a lesson about how to deal with our screwed-up, fragmenting and dangerous world of the 21st century.
That is the politics of the 21st century, and in a way, Independent Diplomat embodies that fragmentation, that change, that is happening to all of us.
Saddled in the performing arts as we are, by antiquated union agreements that inhibit and often prohibit mechanical reproduction and streaming, locked into large facilities that were designed to ossify the ideal relationship between artist and audience most appropriate to the 19th century and locked into a business model dependent on high ticket revenues, where we charge exorbitant prices.
And for those of you who love the arts, aren't you glad you invited me here to brighten your day? (Laughter) (Applause) Now, rather than saying that we're on the brink of our own annihilation, I prefer to believe that we are engaged in a fundamental reformation, a reformation like the religious Reformation of the 16th century.
We've actually changed the temperature in the last century just the right amount.
We do expect to see a sea-level rise on the order of one to two meters by the end of this century.
And that's how we discover what is truly natural and how different is the last century, right?
You know, we've warmed the globe about a degree Centigrade in the last century, and there's nothing in the natural part of that record that resembles what we've seen in the last century.
In the 17th century, the mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, wrote of his dread of the infinite, his feeling of insignificance at contemplating the vast reaches of outer space.
According to a theory that dates back to the 19th century, such memories are stored as chains of synaptic connections inside your brain.
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