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It'll work for probably a century.
But look what happened in the course of that century.
If you think about the issues our parents tried to solve in the 20th century, issues like racism, or sexism, or the issue that we've been fighting in this century, homophobia, those are hard issues.
I'd like you to come back with me for a moment to the 19th century, specifically to June 24, 1833.
They felt science had stagnated since the days of the scientific revolution that had happened in the 17th century.
By the 19th century, it had become a kind of gentleman's club populated mainly by antiquarians, literary men and the nobility.
[External funding for science] Up to the 19th century, natural philosophers were expected to pay for their own equipment and supplies.
Occasionally, there were prizes, such as that given to John Harrison in the 18th century, for solving the so-called longitude problem, but prizes were only given after the fact, when they were given at all.
We know, because in the mid-19th century, wonderful Victorian engineers installed systems of sewers and wastewater treatment and the flush toilet, and disease dropped dramatically.
The soap companies did it in the early 20th century.
But what I want to suggest to you is that both of those terms, which have been in play for a century or more, are actually now impediments to progress, that what we need conceptually to make progress here is to rethink these disorders as brain disorders.
Women, back in the late 19th century, spent two days a week doing the laundry.
Back in the late 19th century, the only source of heat in most homes was a big fireplace in the kitchen that was used for cooking and heating.
Back before the turn of the century, women had another problem.
They had put in underground sewer pipes, and as a result, one of the great scourges of the late 19th century, waterborne diseases like cholera, began to disappear.
And an amazing fact for techno-optimists is that in the first half of the 20th century, the rate of improvement of life expectancy was three times faster than it was in the second half of the 19th century.
Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of people to lose the 20th century, maybe for a couple of days, in some cases for more than a week, electricity, running water, heating, gasoline for their cars, and a charge for their iPhones.
I'd like to award an Oscar to the inventors of the 20th century, the people from Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Edison to the Wright Brothers, I'd like to call them all up here, and they're going to call back to you.
Like the first two industrial revolutions, the full implications of the new machine age are going to take at least a century to fully play out, but they are staggering.
By designing the biological body to better communicate with the built design world, humanity will end disability in this 21st century and establish the scientific and technological basis for human augmentation, extending human capability beyond innate, physiological levels, cognitively, emotionally and physically.
In this 21st century, designers will extend the nervous system into powerfully strong exoskeletons that humans can control and feel with their minds.
In this 21st century, I believe humans will become superheroes.
During the twilight years of this century, I believe humans will be unrecognizable in morphology and dynamics from what we are today.
It's about perfecting something old, and bringing something old into the 21st century.
In the late 6th century BC, the idea of Western democracy was born.
The reason why we forgot that is because the times in history when architecture did the most to transform society were those times when, actually, the one percent would build on behalf of the 99 percent, for various different reasons, whether that was through philanthropy in the 19th century, communism in the early 20th, the welfare state, and most recently, of course, through this inflated real estate bubble.
And in a way it should be kind of obvious, right, that in the 21st century, maybe cities can be developed by citizens.
I started my talk with quotes from wordsmiths who were separated by an ocean and a century.
This could tilt the geopolitical balance on its head, make it very difficult for a nation to turn its firepower against an attacker, and that could shift the balance in the 21st century away from defense and toward offense.
Meta-narratives that make universal claims failed us in the 20th century and are failing us in the 21st.
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