local, action based partnerships and cross scale institutional innovations, where local actors, together, can deal with the global commons at a large scale.

Let's call it national e markets, NEMs for short.

And they're really strictly regulated.

We can certainly see this in response to the current financial crisis.

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He'll pour a honeyed potion in your ear... and you'll wake up one day and all you'll say is, Republic.

From the simplest version in nature, one branch, my engineering collaborator, Ron Fearing, at Berkeley, had made the first synthetic version.

So we worked with a company that specializes in camera surveillance, and we asked them to develop a piece of software with us, using a camera that could look at people in the room, track them and replace one person with the background, rendering them invisible.

Now this also, as good as it is, wasn't quite enough.

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The reg manual says the next...

So, this is a quick tale I'm going to tell. This is the Furby tale.

I found that any culture has its irreconcilable contradictions.

Thorn, I thought they had you on riot control.

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Cold, isn't it?

I'm in Kobe 10 days each month.

I shall endure! How terrible!

Goodness, so much money.

I curse it! What is it?

I'll eat later. It isn't lunch.

If I must I'll go to Mama! One moment, Sir.

Tom is in favor of gun control.

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They had an audacious idea.

Holy shit...

I can't.

Community.

This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR.

You should obey the traffic rules.

And that's the powerful men. We have to meet and to talk to them.

The surrounding area remains closed

So James Surowieki has this idea of the wisdom of crowds, that says that a whole bunch of people are smarter than any individual.

Go to Demon City...

Exactly 6000 yen.

Partner.

And 20 years later, miraculously, we collaborated with a company from Mali, the Sogolon Marionette Troupe of Bamako, where we made a piece about a tall giraffe.

Removed your restraing bolt, have you?

And a prefecture is like a state. Fukushima Prefecture is about the size of the state of Connecticut.

They were partners?

We should obey the rules.

I worked for the Coastguard, was made a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador.

When Al Gore was Vice President, his team had an idea for deregulating a significant portion of the telecommunications industry.

But behind the icon, there's complex code.