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.”

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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us

Stewart Brand: Kaj nas lahko naučijo skvoterska mesta

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Podeželske vasi po svetu se praznijo, ker se milijarde ljudi zbirajo v mestih, da bi živeli v prenapolnjenih skvoterskih kampih in slumih. Stewart Brand pravi, da je to dobra stvar. Zakaj? Izvedeli boste v treh minutah.
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And it maylahko be that passingmimo the 50 percentodstotkov urbanmestno pointtočka
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In morda je več kot 50-odstotna
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is an economicgospodarsko tippingodlaganje pointtočka. So the worldsvet now is a mapzemljevid of connectivitypovezljivost.
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ekonomska ločnica.
Svet je sedaj zemljevid povezanosti.
Včasih so bila Pariz, London in New York
največja mesta.
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It used to be that ParisPariz and LondonLondon and NewNove YorkYork were the largestnajvečji citiesmesta.
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What we have now is the endkonec of the risevzpon of the WestWest. That's over.
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Sedaj je konec rasti Zahoda.
Tega je konec.
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The aggregateagregat numbersštevilke are overwhelmingpreveč.
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Skupne številke so velikanske.
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So what's really going on? Well, villagesvasi of the worldsvet are emptyingpraznjenje out.
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Kaj se torej dogaja?
No, vasi po svetu se praznijo.
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The questionvprašanje is, why?
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Vprašanje je, zakaj?
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And here'sTukaj je the unromanticunromantic truthresnica -- and the citymesto airzrak makesnaredi you freeprost,
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in tu je neromantična resnica--
in mestni zrak te osvobodi,
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they said in RenaissanceRenesanse GermanyNemčija. So some people go to placesmesta
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so rekli v renesančni Nemčiji.
Nekateri ljudje gredo v kraje
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like ShanghaiShanghai but mostnajbolj go to the squatterSlepeče citiesmesta where aestheticsestetika rulepravilo.
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kot je Šanghaj, ampak večina jih gre
v skvoterska mesta, kjer vlada estetika.
In to niso ljudje, ki jih ogroža revščina.
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And these are not really a people oppressedzatirane by povertyrevščina.
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They're people gettingpridobivanje out of povertyrevščina as fasthitro as they can.
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To so ljudje, ki iz revščine bežijo,
kolikor hitro se da.
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They're the dominantprevladuje buildersgradbeniki and to a largevelik extentobseg, the dominantprevladuje designersoblikovalci.
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So glavni gradbeniki in v veliki meri,
glavni oblikovalci.
Imajo domačo infrastrukturo
in živahno mestno življenje.
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They have home-brewedDomača infrastructureinfrastrukture and vibrantživahen urbanmestno life.
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One-sixthEno šestino of the GDPBDP in IndiaIndija is comingprihajajo out of MumbaiMumbai.
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Ena šestina BDP Indije pride iz Mumbaja.
Neprestano se nadgrajujejo,
in včasih jim pomaga celo vlada.
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They are constantlynenehno upgradingNadgradnja, and in a fewmalo casesprimerov, the governmentvlada helpspomaga.
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EducationIzobraževanje is the mainglavni eventdogodek that can happense zgodi in citiesmesta.
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Izobrazba je glavni dogodek,
ki se lahko zgodi v mestih.
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What's going on in the streetulica in MumbaiMumbai?
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Kaj se dogaja na ulicah Mumbaja?
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AlAl GoreGore knowsve. It's basicallyv bistvu everything.
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Al Gore ve. Praktično vse.
V skvoterskih mestih ni brezposelnosti.
Vsi delajo.
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There's no unemploymentbrezposelnosti in squatterSlepeče citiesmesta. EveryoneVsi worksdela.
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One-sixthEno šestino of humanityčloveštvo is there. It's soonkmalu going to be more than that.
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Ena šestina človeštva živi tam.
Kmalu bo ta delež še večji.
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So here'sTukaj je the first punchudarec lineline:
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Tu je prva poanta:
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citiesmesta have defuseddefused the populationprebivalstvo bombbomba.
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mesta so ublažila populacijsko bombo.
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And here'sTukaj je the seconddrugič punchudarec lineline.
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In tu je še druga poanta.
To so novice iz središča mesta.
Tu so še v perspektivi.
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That's the newsnovice from downtowndowntown. Here it is in perspectiveperspektive.
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StarsZvezde have shinedblestela down on earth'sZemlja life for billionsmilijarde of yearslet.
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Zvezde so sijale dol na življenje
na Zemlji več milijard let.
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Now we're shiningsije right back up.
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Sedaj mi sijemo nazaj gor.
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
Translated by Nika Kotnik
Reviewed by Matej Divjak

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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