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Can a city be too technological? Saskia Sassen at TED2013

on Feb 26, 2013

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 […]

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

By Kate Torgovnick May

on Oct 22, 2012

[ted id=1593 width=560 height=315] 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 […]