Dr. Lars Vargo, Ambassador, Sweden Embassy

It developed in collectives of human beings.

It's a group of people with a common set of values and beliefs.

And as I plunged deeper and deeper into the deaf world,

And you might think of this cultural web of life as being an ethnosphere, and you might define the ethnosphere as being the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.

My big influences are Madlib, and J Dilla. Big up to Dilla. thats it I personally think that it is the culture

It's not confined to its own lineage.

It's unlikely... ...but you're not from a multicultural heritage, are you?

The Dilemma of Multiculturalism

They said culture.

Where do we get these models? We get them from others.

We studied Greek culture from various aspects.

Dios mio! Lo siento, tengo que calmarme por un segundo.

But there are a lot of similarities.

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But I'm saying the culture makes people dumb.

How's this for culture?

Okay, what's a magdalenian?

Very civilized

And now, we are at a crossroads.

The writing system became streamlined into a phonetic alphabet that we know as cuneiform.

Friedrich Nietzsche, along about 1885, wrote a book titled The Birth of Tragedy.

This is by a duo, Michael Abernathy and Bud Holland.

To use their power for good

And then you can support us. That's the role of you guys.

Because, at the end of the day, it could, if necessary by force, get its own way.

This is evolution. Copy, transform and combine.

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Thanks very much.

So where do we go?

And that is We are losing our tolerance for vulnerability.

The 19th century culture was defined by the novel, the 20th century culture was defined by the cinema, and the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface.

Why won't you let me?

That's what it's for. It's so that ideas don't die out.

That, to me, is the big question that we face as a people right now how do we change?

So exactly why did China grow so much faster?

Culture is the last piece of the innovation engine.

JH The question is, there appears to be a lack of cultural fine tuning in Second Life.

And so, so when we think of Tim Berners Lee of, you know, when you can assume the web, perhaps you'll see a cultural revolution or a nicer cultural revolution or a deculture.

The problem with most organizations, believe it or not, whether it's a community or a culture.

Lessig Bingo. That's the point.

Now I know we learned that in math class, but now it's everywhere in the culture

In some cultures, they go to war without changing their appearance.