Century in sentence

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In half a century of trying to help prevent wars, there's one question that never leaves me: How do we deal with extreme violence without using force in return?

And it brings me to the crux of what's going on, or what I perceive as going on, in the world today, which is that last century was top-down power.

This century there's a shift.

We can bring to an end the bloodiest century that humanity has ever known.

This then has the potential to cause a feedback loop, where cooling systems alone could become one of our biggest sources of greenhouse gases later this century.

A 10 or 20 percent improvement in the efficiency of every cooling system could actually have an enormous impact on our greenhouse gas emissions, both today and later this century.

Yes, it's a little flippant word hiding a profound shift in mindset, but I believe this is the shift we need to make if we, humanity, are going to thrive here together this century.

So here we are, flying into the sunset of mass consumerism over half a century on, with economies that have come to expect, demand and depend upon unending growth, because we're financially, politically and socially addicted to it.

And we are socially addicted to growth, because thanks to a century of consumer propaganda, which fascinatingly was created by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, who realized that his uncle's psychotherapy could be turned into very lucrative retail therapy if we could be convinced to believe that we transform ourselves every time we buy something more.

I think it's time to choose a higher ambition, a far bigger one, because humanity's 21st century challenge is clear: to meet the needs of all people within the means of this extraordinary, unique, living planet so that we and the rest of nature can thrive.

So can we find this dynamic balance in the 21st century?

We, the people of the early 21st century, this is our selfie.

No economist from last century saw this picture, so why would we imagine that their theories would be up for taking on its challenges?

You see, 20th century economics assured us that if growth creates inequality, don't try to redistribute, because more growth will even things up again.

This century, we can design our technologies and institutions to distribute wealth, knowledge and empowerment to many.

We're more than 50 years into Licklider's vision for the future, and the data suggests that we should be quite excited about tackling this century's hardest problems, man and machine in cooperation together.

So when the White House was built in the early 19th century, it was an open house.

Then in the 19th century, we layer on the concept of bureaucracy and the administrative state to help us govern complex and large societies.

Good old Henry II here, in the 12th century, invented the jury.

Indeed, reputation is a currency that I believe will become more powerful than our credit history in the 21st century.

In the 20th century, the invention of traditional credit transformed our consumer system, and in many ways controlled who had access to what.

In the 21st century, new trust networks, and the reputation capital they generate, will reinvent the way we think about wealth, markets, power and personal identity, in ways we can't yet even imagine.

To help you, I've got two things to leave you with, from two great philosophers, perhaps two of the greatest philosopher thinkers of the 20th century.

Tapestries were ubiquitous between the Middle Ages and, really, well into the 18th century, and it was pretty apparent why.

And this is what I'm trying to explain has happened to us in the 21st century.

My simple idea is that what's happened is, the real 21st century around us isn't so obvious to us, so instead we spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

We are not equipped for the 21st century.

It's sort of the good old, traditional form of terrorism, but it's sort of been packaged for the 21st century.

It was its big marketing day, and it was packaged for the 21st century.

So I've told you a bit about what I did to try and drag Parliament, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century, and I'm just going to give you a couple of examples of what a few other people I know are doing.

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