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(Ian Goldin) Great, thank you: it's
wonderful to be with educators
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who care about the intersection
of learning and technology,
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because that's going to shape the future.
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Whether we're able
to get this right or not
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will determine whether we have
a glorious 21st century
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or a period of unmitigated risks.
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The walls are coming down everywhere
and it's difficult to not think about this,
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being so close to it, here in Berlin,
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25 years ago, these walls coming down.
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But it's not just about physical walls
coming down,
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it's about mental walls,
it's about financial walls,
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it's about technological walls.
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All the walls are coming down,
and it's that
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that makes this the most exciting century
in the history of humanity.
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It changes all of our lives
in surprising ways.
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And it has certainly changed mine.
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I was living in Paris
when this wall came down.
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I didn't imagine that it would touch me
personally.
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I thought it was about Eastern Europe,
about the Cold War, about something else.
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But within 6 months, I would,
much to my surprise,
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I was invited to have dinner with
President Mandela in Paris.
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He wasn't president then,
he had just been released from prison.
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But he was released
because the Cold War ended.
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And the defining feature of this period
we live in our lives
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is that what happens elsewhere will
dramatically affect us in new ways.
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It's this change that results
from the walls coming down.
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And it's this change that will shape
education going forward
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and technological progress.
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And of course, the other fundamental
period of -- in this time --
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is technology, technology,
which got off the ground
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at the same time as the Berlin Wall
came down, over 25 years.
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This exponential growth in
virtual connectivity.
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And now we have a world of 5 billion
literate, educated people
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whereas we had a world, only 30 years ago,
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of well less than a billion
connected people
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4 billion more literate connected people
in the world,
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and this is the engine of change,
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where the people in the slums of Mumbai,
Soweto's Al Pano (check)
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or in apartments in Berlin,
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they will contribute to change
in surprising new ways.
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And they're coming together.
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There is a release of individual genius.
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If you believe in the random distribution
of exceptional capabilities, which I do,
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there is just more people out there,
educated, connected, giving, learning.
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But I also believe in collective genius,
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the capabilities of people
coming together,
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to form teams, to learn from each other
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through the methods that
we learned about this morning.
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and in other ways.
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So new cures for cancer being developed
in 24 hours cycles around the world.
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My lab in Oxford doing this with people
in Beijing and San Francisco, in Palo Alto
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and all over, in real time.
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There is no sleep on innovation any more.
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And that's the power, the engine,
which brings change. 3:01
Claude Almansi
Wow! Thanks a bunch, Mariana!
Claude Almansi
Again: thanks a lot, Cathy.
Best,
Claude
Mariana Arias
You're welcome, Claude. It's a great video. :)