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American - Businessman | May 20, 1961 -

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

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Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

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Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

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In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

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As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

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The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

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It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.

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We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

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By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

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The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

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