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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TED2006

Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us

Stewart Brand pri ladurboj

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Kamparaj vilaĝoj tra la mondo dezertiĝas dum miliardoj da homoj amasiĝas en urbojn por vivi en plenplenaj ladurboj kaj domaĉaroj. Steward Brand diras, ke tio estas bona afero. Kial? Necesos al vi 3 minutoj por ekscii.
- 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 ... Full bio

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Basically, there's a major demographic event going on.
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Esence, nun okazadas demografia revolucio.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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Kaj eblas ke transiri 50 elcentojn de enurba loĝado
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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estas ekonomia turnopunkto. Tial la mondo nun estas mapo de konektebleco.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Antaŭe Parizo kaj Londono kaj Novjorko estis la plej grandaj urboj.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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Kion ni nun havas, tio estas la fino de la kresko de la Okcidento. Tio finiĝis.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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La kombinitaj nombroj estas imponaj.[ĉiusemajne 1,3 milionoj moviĝas en la urbon]
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Do kio vere okazas? Nu, vilaĝoj tra la mondo malpleniĝas.
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The question is, why?
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La demando estas: kial?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Kaj jen la malromantika vero [malavantaĝoj de la kampara vivo] --
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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"La urba aero liberigas vin", tiel oni diris en Renesanca Germanio. Do iuj iras al lokoj
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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kiel Ŝanhajo sed plej multaj iras al ladurboj, kie regas estetiko.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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Kaj tiuj ne estas homoj vere subpremataj de malriĉeco.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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Ili estas homoj elirantaj el malriĉeco tiel rapide kiel ili povas.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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Ili estas la ĉefaj konstruantoj kaj plej ofte la ĉefaj fasonantoj.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Ili havas hejmfaritan infrastrukturon kaj viglan urban vivon.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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Unu sesono de la Malneta Nacia Produko de Barato fontas el Mumbajo.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Ili daŭre progresas kaj en kelkaj maloftaj okazoj la registaro helpas.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Edukado estas la ĉefa evento, kiu povas okazi en urboj.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Kio okazas surstrate en Mumbajo? [neformalaj entreprenoj]
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore scias. Temas esence pri ĉio. [Neformala ekonomio]
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Ne ekzistas senlaboreco en ladurboj. Ĉiuj laboras.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Unu sesono de la homaro estas tie. Kaj baldaŭ estos pli ol tio.[Espereble 2 pliaj miliardoj]
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So here's the first punch line:
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Do jen tie ĉi la unua frapa punkto.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Urboj malmuntis la populacian bombon. [Ni atingos 8 aŭ 9 miliardojn kaj tiu nombro ekfalos]
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And here's the second punch line.
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Kaj jen tie ĉi la dua frapa punkto. [Urboj estas kreantoj de riĉeco]
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Estas novaĵoj el la urbocentro. [Miliardoj eklasos la staton de mizero] Jen en perspektivo
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Steloj brilis malsupren al la vivo de la Tero dum miliardoj da jaroj.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Nun ni resuprenbrilas.
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Thank you.
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Dankon.
Translated by James Piton
Reviewed by Toño del Barrio

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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

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