Futuríveis

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Many of the ideas on how to get better at what humans do echoed the mantra about picking battles that are big enough to matter, but small enough to win.

The clear message about technologies was that they can be used as a level playing field and as new distribution channels.

Others put the future of humanity into stark context, warning that our rate of urban growth is unsustainable and destructive to communities and to the environment.

There seemed to be a few assumptions underlying a lot of the ideas at TED such as:

* despite terrorism, environmental destruction and poverty, the future could be bright
* technology can solve more problems than it creates
* entrepreneurs are good and governments are inflexible

Too often these underlying assumptions were not questioned.

What was also conspicuously absent was the voice of those in power who can turn these ideas into policy in nations that need the solutions most.
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