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Technology

Can a city be too technological? Saskia Sassen at TED2013Can a city be too technological? Saskia Sassen at TED2013

Posted By Ben Lillie

Saskia Sassen thinks deeply about the world’s cities, and she’s on the TED stage to share some of her provocative theories about how we should think about urbanizing technology, that pervasive force that has impacted so much of the way in which we live and work. She starts by pointing out an amazing fact: there […]

Global Issues

11 stats that suggest our world may not be as globalized as we think11 stats that suggest our world may not be as globalized as we think

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

Pankaj Ghemawat coined a new phrase in his talk from TEDGlobal: “globaloney.” In other words, Ghemawat takes issue with the idea that national borders are eroding and that we are all just living in “one world.” It’s a notion Ghemawat says was first floated in the 1850s by David Livingston, the Scottish explorer who traveled the […]