Change
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But look now how quickly that climate
change
has flipped the image of the animal in our minds.
Augmented reality is something that will happen in our lifetime, and it will happen because we have the tools to make it happen, and people need to be aware of that, because augmented reality will
change
our lives just as much as the Internet and the cell phone.
I spent a couple years finishing graduate school, and the whole entire time while I'm sitting there in buildings at Oxford that were literally built hundreds of years before the United States was even founded, and I'm sitting there talking to dons about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and how that influenced the start of World War I, where the entire time my heart and my head were on my soldiers who were now throwing on Kevlars and grabbing their flak vests and figuring out how exactly do I
change
around or how exactly do I clean a machine gun in the darkness.
Both factors influence climate and the suggestion is that they've helped moderate climate
change.
The late, great Christopher Hitchens wrote a book called "God Is Not Great" whose subtitle was, "Religion Poisons Everything." (Laughter) But last month, in Time magazine, Rabbi David Wolpe, who I gather is referred to as America's rabbi, said, to balance that against that negative characterization, that no important form of social
change
can be brought about except through organized religion.
So there's a big change, and that division, that intellectual division of labor occurs as I say, I think, and it sort of solidifies so that by the end of the 19th century in Europe, there's a real intellectual division of labor, and you can do all sorts of serious things, including, increasingly, even philosophy, without being constrained by the thought, "Well, what I have to say has to be consistent with the deep truths that are given to me by our religious tradition."
Every one of you knows that the rate of
change
slows over the human lifespan, that your children seem to
change
by the minute but your parents seem to
change
by the year.
But what is the name of this magical point in life where
change
suddenly goes from a gallop to a crawl?
So here's a study of
change
in people's personal values over time.
We asked half of them to predict for us how much their values would
change
in the next 10 years, and the others to tell us how much their values had changed in the last 10 years.
First of all, you are right,
change
does slow down as we age, but second, you're wrong, because it doesn't slow nearly as much as we think.
At every age, from 18 to 68 in our data set, people vastly underestimated how much
change
they would experience over the next 10 years.
Again, we asked people how much they expected to
change
over the next 10 years, and also how much they had changed over the last 10 years, and what we found, well, you're going to get used to seeing this diagram over and over, because once again the rate of
change
does slow as we age, but at every age, people underestimate how much their personalities will
change
in the next decade.
We ask half of them to tell us, "Do you think that that will
change
over the next 10 years?" and half of them to tell us, "Did that
change
over the last 10 years?"
Only when we look backwards do we realize how much
change
happens in a decade.
The one constant in our life is
change.
It could take 10,000 years for there to be a significant environmental change, and during that period of time it would evolve a new behavior.
Sixty-five million years ago, there was a sudden, violent
change
to the environment.
And I wanted to capture some of this incredible
change
that was happening, and as luck or politics would have it, another marriage battle started gearing up, this time in Maryland, where African-Americans make up 30 percent of the electorate.
Hackers represent an exceptional force for
change
in the 21st century.
They are compelled to either exploit it or try and
change
it, and so they find the vulnerable aspects in our rapidly changing world.
It stands guard at the boundary between the known and the unknown, because in order to discover something truly new, at least one of your basic assumptions has to change, and that means that in science, we do something quite heroic.
And when I heard that, that science has a culture, everything clicked into place for me, because if science has a culture, culture can be changed, and I can be a
change
agent working to
change
the culture of science wherever I could.
Here's the thing: If you ask dictionary editors, what they'll tell you is they're just trying to keep up with us as we
change
the language.
Are you bothered by language fads and language change, or do you find it fun, interesting, something worthy of study as part of a living language?
Does the language have to
change
that way?"
What I'm saying is, we should be less quick to decide that that
change
is terrible, we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people, and we should be entirely reluctant to think that the English language is in trouble.
The language is not going to
change
so fast that we can't keep up.
I hope that what you can do is find language
change
not worrisome but fun and fascinating, just the way dictionary editors do.
It wasn't until I was seven years old that our family dynamic started to
change.
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