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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

Стюард Брэнд: "Бір түнде пайда болған қалалар" бізге не үйретті?

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Әлемнің барлық ауылдары қаңырап, миллиондаған адамдар лагерьлер мен лашықтарда тұрып "заңсыз қалалар" бой көтеруде. Стюард Брэнд "Бұл - жақсы құбылыс" дейді. Неге? Бұны түсіну үшін 3 минут уақытыңызды арнаңыз.
- Environmentalist, futurist
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Basically, there's a major demographic event going on.
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Демографияда қызықты жайтттар бар.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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Қалаға көшушілер саны 50%-дан асуы
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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экономикаға соққы болмақ.
Әлем картасы да өзгерді.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Париж, Лондон және Нью-Йорк
әлемнің ірі қалалары еді.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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Қазір батыс күйреп барады. Күйреп!
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Көшушілер санында толас жоқ.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Шын мәнінде не боп жатыр?
Шағын ауылдар қаңырап қалды.
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The question is, why?
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Неге дейсіз бе?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Шындық мынада:
"Қала еркіндікке толы"
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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депті Германияның қайта өрлеу дәуірінде.
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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Бірі Шанхай сияқты қалаға ауысса,
көбісі "заңсыз салынған" қалаға көшеді.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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Әрі бұлар кедейлік езгісіндегі халық емес.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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Бұнда адамдар кедейліктен құтылуға дайын.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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Сәулетті ғимарат та, дизайн да сол жерде
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Қалаға тән инфоқұрылым бар.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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Үндістанның ЖІӨ-нің 1/6-і Мумбайдан.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Үнемі ұлғайып отыр.
Мемлекет тек кейде көмектеседі.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Қалаланың артықшылығы - білім бар.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Мумбай көшелерінде не болып жатыр?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Альберт Гор "бұл барлығы екенін" біледі.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Жұпыны аудандарда жұмыссыздық жоқ.
Бәрі жұмыс істейді.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Адамдардың 1/6-і сол жақта.
Бұл сан ұлғайып келеді.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Бірінші кедергі:
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Қалаларда демографиялық дүмпу тоқтады
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And here's the second punch line.
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Және екіншісі:
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Міне, қала орталығының жаңалығы.
Қазір көресіздер.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Жұлдыздар жылдар бойы жерге жарығын төкті.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Енді біз жарық шашатын жұлдызға айналдық.
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Thank you.
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Рақмет.
Translated by Zhanar Zhanar
Reviewed by Askhat Yerkimbay

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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