分类目录归档：future
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Meg Jay: We need to talk about the empathy gap.
So the empathy gap is why we sometimes hate on people
on the other end of the political spectrum.
Or it's why maybe we shrug their shoulde
I love cars. I really do.
But what we are currently doing is a bit insane.
Cars put smog in the air,
create traffic and congestion
and cause accidents.
This might seem like a crazy thing for me to say
Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar
This might seem like a far-away place
in a far-away land.
My house is right there in the middle.
This was 1992 L.A. Riots.
And I remember being 8
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let me tell you it has been a fantastic
month for deception
and I'm not even talking about the
American presidential race we have a
high profile journalist caught for
plagiarism a youn
I study the future of crime and
terrorism and frankly I'm afraid I'm
afraid by what I see I sincerely want to
believe that technology can bring us the
techno utopia that we've been promised
but you se
Today ,more than half of all people in the world
live in an urban area.
By mid-century, this will increase to 70%.
But as recently as 100 years ago,
only two out of ten people lived in a city,
and bef
Imagine if half the people in your neighborhood, your city,
or even your whole country were wiped out.
It might sound like something out of an apocalyptic horror film,
but it actually happened in th
Twenty thousand years ago,
the Earth was a frigid landscape where woolly mammoths roamed.
Huge ice sheets, several thousand meters thick,
encased parts of North America, Asia, and Europe.
We common
When trains began to shuttle people across the coutryside,
many insisted they would never replace horses.
Less than a century later, people repeated that same prediction about cars,
telephones,
rad
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so here's the scoop every single one of
you
is making history because i study and i
share history as my job
what i learn every single day is that
the most important and interesting