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In the 17th century, a woman named Giulia Tofana had a very successful perfume business.
I'd like to talk today about the two biggest social trends in the coming century, and perhaps in the next 10,000 years.
They're now saying that the 21st century is going to be the century of what they call the "symmetrical marriage," or the "pure marriage," or the "companionate marriage."
It is the same in the 21st century.
Fascism and dictatorships might come back, but they will come back in a new form, a form which is much more relevant to the new technological realities of the 21st century.
In the 20th century, democracy and capitalism defeated fascism and communism because democracy was better at processing data and making decisions.
CA: So in "Homo Deus," you argue that this would be the century when humans kind of became gods, either through development of artificial intelligence or through genetic engineering.
So these kinds of crises might serve the same function as the two world wars in the 20th century.
And the same thing might happen in the 21st century.
The Wright Brothers, in the beginning of the last century, had for the first time managed to make one of those devices fly.
They can also choose not to do that, but those that go down that road may end up in a similar situation the Wright brothers ended up with early last century, facing forcible measures by government.
Images like this, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, have been seared into our consciousness during the twentieth century and have given us a new understanding of who we are, where we've come from and the times we live in.
During the twentieth century, we witnessed the atrocities of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Rwanda and other genocides, and even though the twenty-first century is only seven years old, we have already witnessed an ongoing genocide in Darfur and the daily horrors of Iraq.
You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years, although there seems to have been a tipping point at the onset of the Age of Reason in the sixteenth century.
The tiny, little blue bar in the lower left-hand corner plots the corresponding statistic from United States and Europe in the twentieth century, and includes all the deaths of both World Wars.
If the death rate in tribal warfare had prevailed during the 20th century, there would have been two billion deaths rather than 100 million.
Well, let's click the zoom lens down one order of magnitude, and look at the century scale.
But there was a decline from at least two orders of magnitude in homicide from the Middle Ages to the present, and the elbow occurred in the early sixteenth century.
It is, arguably, the most audacious endeavor of that Edwardian golden age of exploration, and it seemed to me high time, given everything we have figured out in the century since from scurvy to solar panels, that it was high time someone had a go at finishing the job.
The 20th century, the last hundred years, is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.
Giambattista della Porta, a Neapolitan scholar in the 16th century, examined and studied the natural world and saw how it could be manipulated.
This is where we're headed in terms of global temperature rises, and if we keep on going the way we're going, we get a four- or five-degree-Centigrade temperature rise by the end of this century.
The siege went on for three and a half years, and it was a siege without water, without power, without electricity, without heat, without food, in the middle of Europe, in the middle of the 20th century.
And that was asked not just by that guy but by everyone in the pavilion, and frankly, by every worker at one of the 50,000 factories that closed in the first decade of this century.
By the end of the century, there was nothing left but these beautiful skins in museum specimen drawers.
And National Geographic got interested because National Geographic has the theory that the last century, discovery was basically finding things, and in this century, discovery is basically making things.
Cut to our century, same country, same pyramids, another people spreading the same idea of equality with a different book.
They turn a social network from virtual to actual, and kind of rebooted the 21st century.
Many of these do-it-yourself practices were lost in the second half of the 20th century.
That sort of overall sustainable energy problem is the biggest problem that we have to solve this century, independent of environmental concerns.
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