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Stewart Brand - Environmentalist, futurist
Since the counterculture '60s, Stewart Brand has been creating our internet-worked world. Now, with biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, Stewart Brand has a bold new plan ...

Why you should listen

With biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, the revival of extinct species is becoming possible. Stewart Brand plans to not only bring species back but restore them to the wild.

Brand is already a legend in the tech industry for things he’s created: the Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL, the Global Business Network, the Long Now Foundation, and the notion that “information wants to be free.” Now Brand, a lifelong environmentalist, wants to re-create -- or “de-extinct” -- a few animals that’ve disappeared from the planet.

Granted, resurrecting the woolly mammoth using ancient DNA may sound like mad science. But Brand’s Revive and Restore project has an entirely rational goal: to learn what causes extinctions so we can protect currently endangered species, preserve genetic and biological diversity, repair depleted ecosystems, and essentially “undo harm that humans have caused in the past.”

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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us

Stewart Brand hovorí o slamoch

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Dedinské usadlosti sú opustené, miliardy ľudí sa sťahujú do miest, aby žili na preľudnených táboroch a slamoch. Stewart Brand si myslí, že je to dobrá vec. Prečo? Zistíte to za 3 minúty.
- Environmentalist, futurist
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BasicallyV podstate, there's a majormajor demographicdemografický eventudalosť going on.
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V podstate sa práve deje veľká demografická udalosť.
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And it maysmieť be that passingpominuteľný the 50 percentpercento urbanmestský pointbod
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A môže sa stať, že prekročenie 50% miery urbanizácie
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is an economicekonomický tippingsklápanie pointbod. So the worldsvet now is a mapmapa of connectivitykonektivita.
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je ekonomickým bodom zvratu. Svet je dnes prepojenou mapou.
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It used to be that ParisParíž and LondonLondýn and NewNové YorkYork were the largestnajväčší citiesmesta.
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Bývavalo, že Paríž, Londýn a New York boli najväčšími mestami sveta.
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What we have now is the endkoniec of the risestúpať of the WestWest. That's over.
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Nastal koniec vzostupu Západu. Skončil.
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The aggregateagregát numbersčísla are overwhelmingohromujúci.
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Súhrnné počty sú ohromujúce.
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So what's really going on? Well, villagesdedín of the worldsvet are emptyingvyprázdňovanie out.
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Čo sa v skutočnosti deje? Dediny všade na svete sa vyľudňujú.
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The questionotázka is, why?
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Otázkou zostáva prečo?
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And here'stady the unromanticunromantic truthpravda -- and the cityveľkomesto airovzdušia makesznačky you freezadarmo,
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Tu je neromantická pravda -- mestský vzduch oslobodzuje,
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they said in RenaissanceRenesancia GermanyNemecko. So some people go to placesMiesta
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hovorievali v renesančnom Nemecku. Niektorí ľudia odchádzajú do miest ako
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like ShanghaiShanghai but mostväčšina go to the squatterSquater citiesmesta where aestheticsestetika rulepravidlo.
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Šanghaj, ale väčšina odchádza do prímestských slamov, kde vládne estetika.
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And these are not really a people oppressedutláčaných by povertychudoba.
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Títo ľudia netrpia chudobou.
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They're people gettingzískavanie out of povertychudoba as fastrýchly as they can.
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Sú to ľudia snažiaci sa z chudoby dostať čo najrýchlejšie preč.
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They're the dominantdominantné buildersstavitelia and to a largeveľký extentrozsah, the dominantdominantné designerskonštruktéri.
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To tí sú hlavnými staviteľmi, a do veľkej miery i hlavnými dizajnérmi.
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They have home-breweddomáce infrastructureinfraštruktúra and vibrantvibrujúci urbanmestský life.
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Majú doma vyrobenú infraštruktúru a mestský život plný energie.
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One-sixthJedna šestina of the GDPHDP in IndiaIndia is comingPrichádza out of MumbaiMumbai.
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Jedna šestina indického HDP sa vytvorí v Bombaji.
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They are constantlynepretržite upgradingInovácia, and in a fewmálo casesprípady, the governmentvláda helpspomáha.
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Neustále si vylepšujú (svoje domovy), ale iba niekde s podporou vlády.
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EducationVzdelávanie is the mainHlavná eventudalosť that can happenstať sa in citiesmesta.
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Vzdelanie patrí ku hlavným udalostiam, ktoré môžu v mestách nastať.
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What's going on in the streetpouličné in MumbaiMumbai?
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Čo sa deje v uliciach Bombaja?
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AlAl GoreGore knowsvie. It's basicallyv podstate everything.
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Al Gore to vie. Je to v zásade všetko.
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There's no unemploymentnezamestnanosť in squatterSquater citiesmesta. EveryoneVšetci workspráce.
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V prímestských slamoch neexistuje nezamestnanosť. Každý pracuje.
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One-sixthJedna šestina of humanityľudskosť is there. It's soončoskoro going to be more than that.
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Je tam lokalizovaná jedna šestina ľudstva. Bude ich tam ale omnoho viac.
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So here'stady the first punchPunch lineriadok:
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Tu je prvá pointa.
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citiesmesta have defusedzneškodnil the populationpopulácia bombbomba.
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Mestá zneškodnili populačný boom.
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And here'stady the seconddruhý punchPunch lineriadok.
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A tu je druhá pointa.
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That's the newsnoviny from downtowncentrum. Here it is in perspectiveperspektíva.
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To je správa od centra mesta. Tu to je v perspektíve.
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StarsHviezdy have shinedzažiari down on earth'szemskej life for billionsmiliardy of yearsleta.
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Hviezdy žiarili dolu na Zem po miliardy rokov.
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Now we're shininglesklý right back up.
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Teraz my žiarime späť nahor.
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Thank you.
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Ďakujem vám.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Stewart Brand - Environmentalist, futurist
Since the counterculture '60s, Stewart Brand has been creating our internet-worked world. Now, with biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, Stewart Brand has a bold new plan ...

Why you should listen

With biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, the revival of extinct species is becoming possible. Stewart Brand plans to not only bring species back but restore them to the wild.

Brand is already a legend in the tech industry for things he’s created: the Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL, the Global Business Network, the Long Now Foundation, and the notion that “information wants to be free.” Now Brand, a lifelong environmentalist, wants to re-create -- or “de-extinct” -- a few animals that’ve disappeared from the planet.

Granted, resurrecting the woolly mammoth using ancient DNA may sound like mad science. But Brand’s Revive and Restore project has an entirely rational goal: to learn what causes extinctions so we can protect currently endangered species, preserve genetic and biological diversity, repair depleted ecosystems, and essentially “undo harm that humans have caused in the past.”

More profile about the speaker
Stewart Brand | Speaker | TED.com