RSA Animate - 21st century enlightenment

14min clip via #shaggylocks - Century 21 Calling (1964)

Main products of the #21st century - bodies, #brains and minds

 

"The main products of the twenty-first century will be bodies, brains and minds, and the gap between those who know how to engineer bodies and brains and those who do not will be far bigger than the gap between Dickens’s Britain and the Mahdi’s Sudan. 

Indeed, it will be bigger than the gap between Sapiens and Neanderthals." (from "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari)

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6min 46sec @RSAEvents - New Rules for 21st Century #Enlightenment with Jonathan Haidt

text from youtube "When it comes to social media and connecting the world, the more connections the better, right?

The advent of social media has brought down barriers to participation in public discourse. But has the very openness of social platforms proved fatal for the kind of thinking, debate, provocation, and orthodoxy-challenging that is so necessary for liberal democracy?

Watch acclaimed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! "

6min 42sec @theRSA clip - #Marx for the #21stCentury with David Harvey

Text from youtube "Marx’s ‘Capital’ is one of the most important texts of the modern era and continues to resonate today. Professor David Harvey, the world’s leading expert on Karl Marx, explains the continued importance of Marx’s analysis and how we can apply it to today's economy and society. 

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