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It was only by the turn of the century that more than 90 percent of the children survived their first year.
("Intrigue and murder among 16th century Ottoman court painters.")
It's really hard to see how we're going to get to the rest of the century without at least doubling global agricultural production.
And I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.
More years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th century than all years added across all prior millennia of human evolution combined.
Unfortunately, over the past quarter century, epidemic obesity has made our two-ton steel cars gain weight twice as fast as we have.
And those twin revolutions in electricity will bring to that sector more numerous and profound and diverse disruptions than any other sector, because we've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
He's an Austrian School economist who was first active in the first half of the 20th century in Vienna.
How did this piece of 18th century Austrian aristocratic entertainment turn into the victory crow of this New York kid?
So for example, in the 11th century, people liked pieces that ended like this.
And in the 17th century, it was more like this.
And in the 21st century ... (Music) Now your 21st century ears are quite happy with this last chord, even though a while back it would have puzzled or annoyed you or sent some of you running from the room.
In the 10th century, little squiggles were used just to indicate the general shape of the tune.
And in the 12th century, a line was drawn, like a musical horizon line, to better pinpoint the pitch's location.
And then in the 13th century, more lines and new shapes of notes locked in the concept of the tune exactly, and that led to the kind of notation we have today.
It happened in the '90s, and going into the turn of the century, and here's what happened.
So, by the 18th century, we're still basically doing this.
We have a class of experts, professionals, who play very expensive instruments, for the most part, things like the organ, complicated instruments, and if you wanted to hear music in the 18th century, it was live.
This goes on through the 18th century from the beginning, and then we have ... our first disruption.
The piano was a new technology that really starts to happen in the 18th century, and then it becomes something that you could mass-produce cheaply.
By the turn of the century, it's an interesting time for music delivery; 100 years later, we get the record player, the gramophone, the player piano.
In the 20th century, it becomes a record, something that you then take home.
In the 21st century, it becomes a digital file.
In the 19th century, we've got performers, and we've got composers, people who do different things.
And up until a little more than a century ago, nobody was able to do that with the brain.
And this all changed in the late 19th century.
Today, a century later, when researchers want to visualize neurons, they light them up from the inside rather than darkening them.
And I was there to honor a great 20th century explorer, Roy Chapman Andrews.
What has happened since, and what do the experts predict will happen with the number of children during this century?
Will it remain the same and be two billion by the end of the century?
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