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And the back story is this: SOPA and PIPA, as legislation, were drafted largely by media companies that were founded in the 20th century.
The 20th century was a great time to be a media company, because the thing you really had on your side was scarcity.
It's the 21st century.
And the graph does this, the important point of which, is this extraordinary increase over time, which is why the 20th century has been called the century of democracy's triumph, and why, as Francis Fukuyama said in 1989, some believe that we have reached the end of history, that the question of how to live together has been answered, and that answer is liberal democracy.
How could we fix our broken system and remake democracy for the 21st century?
Internet should not be a luxury, it should be a right, because it is a basic social necessity of the 21st century.
So I want to ask a question: What should culture in the 21st century look like?
The humanitarian model has barely changed since the early 20th century.
This is a 16th century image to show you how widespread his veneration actually was.
It enters that great debate in the middle of the 19th century: Are the scriptures reliable?
It's a great 19th century moment.
And the debate unsettles everybody in the 19th century to realize that the Hebrew scriptures are part of a much wider world of religion.
Let me begin with four words that will provide the context for this week, four words that will come to define this century.
Perhaps the tremendous progress we've made over the last century by a series of forces are, in fact, accelerating to a point that we have the potential in the next three decades to create a world of abundance.
So let's look at what this last century has been to see where we're going.
The wealthiest robber barons of the last century, the emperors on this planet, could have never dreamed of such luxuries.
But then we hit the 20th century, and we entered a new culture that historians call the culture of personality.
The greenhouse effect had been well understood for more than a century.
In 1981, we published an article in Science magazine concluding that observed warming of 0.4 degrees Celsius in the prior century was consistent with the greenhouse effect of increasing CO2.
That Earth would likely warm in the 1980's, and warming would exceed the noise level of random weather by the end of the century.
We also said that the 21st century would see shifting climate zones, creation of drought-prone regions in North America and Asia, erosion of ice sheets, rising sea levels and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.
Most estimates are that, this century, we will get at least one meter.
I think it will be more if we keep burning fossil fuels, perhaps even five meters, which is 18 feet, this century or shortly thereafter.
The monarch butterfly could be one of the 20 to 50 percent of all species that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates will be ticketed for extinction by the end of the century if we stay on business-as-usual fossil fuel use.
If we had started in 2005, it would have required emission reductions of three percent per year to restore planetary energy balance and stabilize climate this century.
This is from a 16th century Aztec scroll showing a man about to eat a psilocybin mushroom and at the same moment get yanked up the staircase by a god.
Now the first thing that will piss you off, undoubtedly, is that all of us are, in fact, going to die in the 21st century.
Anyway, the second thing I want to say about dying in the 21st century, apart from it's going to happen to everybody, is it's shaping up to be a bit of a train wreck for most of us, unless we do something to try and reclaim this process from the rather inexorable trajectory that it's currently on.
And what's really happened over the period of time that I've been working in intensive care is that the people whose lives we started saving back in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, are now coming to die in the 21st century of diseases that we no longer have the answers to in quite the way we did then.
The last century, 1870, was bad for the kids in Europe, because most of this statistics is Europe.
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