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Tesla's insight was profound.

And this Ideagora that he created, an open market, agora, for uniquely qualified minds, was part of a change, a profound change in the deep structure and architecture of our organizations, and how we sort of orchestrate capability to innovate, to create goods and services, to engage with the rest of the world, in terms of government, how we create public value.

Something happened in the early morning hours of May 2nd, 2000, that had a profound effect on the way our society operates.

And it was that picture that made such a profound impact on me because I'll never forget it.

There are no essential Africans, and most of us are as completely ignorant as everyone else about the continent we come from, and yet we want to make profound statements about it.

So, while I'm very excited about all we can do for cooling, and I think there's a lot yet to be done, as a scientist, I'm also drawn to a more profound opportunity that I believe this work highlights.

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.

I'm talking about J.C.R. Licklider's human-computer symbiosis, perhaps better termed "intelligence augmentation," I.A. Licklider was a computer science titan who had a profound effect on the development of technology and the Internet.

So brain research has shown that the adolescent brain undergoes really quite profound development, and this has implications for education, for rehabilitation, and intervention.

Our technologies are great gifts, and we, right now, have the great good fortune to be living at a time when digital technology is flourishing, when it is broadening and deepening and becoming more profound all around the world.

I'm very confident we're going to learn to live more lightly on the planet, and I am extremely confident that what we're going to do with our new digital tools is going to be so profound and so beneficial that it's going to make a mockery out of everything that came before.

Profound and degrading.

This profound gift of generosity challenged and changed the very purpose of my life.

So with that preamble, I want to go into discussing the two most profound social trends.

It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that "there but for fortune go I." Whatever its causes, the decline of violence, I think, has profound implications.

But there are all these other areas that are these profound, big problems that I know that we can work on, and people are working on them in many different sectors, but there's this really fabulous group of things with the power of this Peers, Inc. model.

What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself?

But just as importantly, we need to think of ourselves as the readers of our fears, and how we choose to read our fears can have a profound effect on our lives.

And second, that language is one of the most profound things that separate us all over the world.

So I had the most profound encounters with people, especially lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks, and we would get this beautiful moment of prolonged eye contact being allowed in a city street, and we would sort of fall in love a little bit.

This land in Mexico was in terrible condition, and I've had to mark the hill because the change is so profound.

I want to talk about how the things we've been taught to think about giving and about charity and about the nonprofit sector, are actually undermining the causes we love, and our profound yearning to change the world.

The objects we use, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in, all have a profound impact on our behavior, health and quality of life.

I think that's really a profound difference, and people only experience that when they have a test drive.

In 1991 I had maybe the most profound and transformative experience of my life.

These are scans from Judy Rapoport and her colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health in which they studied children with very early onset schizophrenia, and you can see already in the top there's areas that are red or orange, yellow, are places where there's less gray matter, and as they followed them over five years, comparing them to age match controls, you can see that, particularly in areas like the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or the superior temporal gyrus, there's a profound loss of gray matter.

I actually think the more profound barrier is the long-term nature of the benefits from early childhood programs.

And you know, it had a profound effect on me.

So there's this profound mythology around whistleblowers which says, first of all, they're all crazy.

This is a really subtle distinction, but the implication could be profound.

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