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 o skvoter gradovima

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Ruralna sela su napuštena diljem svijeta, jer milijarde ljudi hrle u gradove kako bi živjeli u prepunim skvoter kampovima i sirotinjskim četvrtima. Stewart Brand tvrdi da je to dobra stvar. Zašto? Trebat će vam samo 3 minute da otkrijete zašto.
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BasicallyU osnovi, there's a majorglavni demographicdemografski eventdogađaj going on.
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Načelno, dešava se veliki demografski pokret.
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And it maysvibanj be that passingpretjecanje the 50 percentposto urbanurbani pointtočka
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Može biti da prešavši 50 posto urbane točke
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is an economicekonomski tippingtipping pointtočka. So the worldsvijet now is a mapkarta of connectivityPovezivanje.
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je ekonomska točka prevrata. Dakle, sadašnji svijet je karta povezanosti.
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It used to be that ParisPariz and LondonLondon and NewNovi YorkYork were the largestnajveći citiesgradovi.
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Nekada su Pariz i London, i New York bili najveći gradovi.
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What we have now is the endkraj of the riseustati of the WestZapad. That's over.
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Ono što imamo sada je kraj uspona zapada. To je završeno.
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The aggregateskupina numbersbrojevi are overwhelmingneodoljiv.
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Sakupljeni brojevi su nadmoćni.
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So what's really going on? Well, villagessela of the worldsvijet are emptyingpražnjenje out.
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Pa što se zapravo događa? Sela svijeta se prazne.
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The questionpitanje is, why?
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Pitanje je, zašto?
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And here'sevo the unromanticromantično truthistina -- and the cityGrad airzrak makesmarke you freebesplatno,
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Ovo je neromantična istina - zrak grada vas čini slobodnim,
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they said in RenaissanceRenesanse GermanyNjemačka. So some people go to placesmjesta
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rekli su u renesansnoj Njemačkoj. Tako neki ljudi idu u mjesta
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like ShanghaiShanghai but mostnajviše go to the squatteršljapkati citiesgradovi where aestheticsestetika rulepravilo.
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poput Šangaja, no većina ide u skvoter gradove u kojima vlada estetika.
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And these are not really a people oppressedpotlačeni by povertysiromaštvo.
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Uistinu to nisu ljudi ugnjetavani siromaštvom.
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They're people gettinguzimajući out of povertysiromaštvo as fastbrzo as they can.
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To su ljudi koji se izvlače iz siromaštva toliko brzo koliko to mogu.
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They're the dominantdominantan buildersgraditelji and to a largeveliki extentopseg, the dominantdominantan designersdizajneri.
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Oni su dominantni graditelji i u velikoj mjeri, i dominantni dizajneri.
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They have home-brewedbi mogle infrastructureinfrastruktura and vibranttreperav urbanurbani life.
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Sadrže domaću infrastrukturu i rezonantni gradski život.
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One-sixthJedna šestina of the GDPBDP-A in IndiaIndija is comingdolazak out of MumbaiMumbai.
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Jedna šestina BDP-a u Indiji dolazi iz Mumbaija.
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They are constantlykonstantno upgradingNadogradnja, and in a fewnekoliko casesslučajevi, the governmentvlada helpspomaže.
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Oni stalno nadograđuju, no samo u nekim slučajeva, vlada pomaže.
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EducationObrazovanje is the mainglavni eventdogađaj that can happendogoditi se in citiesgradovi.
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Obrazovanje je glavni događaj koji se može desiti u gradovima.
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What's going on in the streetulica in MumbaiMumbai?
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Što se to događa na ulicama Mumbaija?
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AlAl GoreGore knowszna. It's basicallyu osnovi everything.
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Al Gore zna. Načelno sve.
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There's no unemploymentnezaposlenosti in squatteršljapkati citiesgradovi. EveryoneSvi worksdjela.
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Nema nezaposlenosti u skvoter gradovima. Svatko radi.
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One-sixthJedna šestina of humanityčovječanstvo is there. It's soonuskoro going to be more than that.
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Jedna šestina čovječanstva je tamo. Uskoro će biti više od toga.
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So here'sevo the first punchudarac linecrta:
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Dakle ovo je prva poanta.
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citiesgradovi have defuseddeaktivirala the populationpopulacija bombbomba.
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Gradovi su onemogučili eksploziju stanovništva.
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And here'sevo the seconddrugi punchudarac linecrta.
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A ovo je druga poanta.
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That's the newsvijesti from downtownu centru grada. Here it is in perspectiveperspektiva.
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To je vijest iz centra grada. Ovdje je u perspektivi.
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StarsZvijezde have shinedsjalo down on earth'szemlja je life for billionsmilijarde of yearsgodina.
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Zvijezde su sjale dolje na život na zemlji tijekom milijarda godina.
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Now we're shiningsjajan right back up.
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Sad mi blistamo nazad gore.
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
Translated by Zrinka Gattin
Reviewed by Tilen Pigac - EFZG

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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