For 10 years, unfortunately we have found ourselves reporting images of destruction, images of killing, of sectarian conflicts, images of violence, emerging from a magnificent piece of land, a region that one day was the source of civilizations and art and culture for thousands of years.

The Middle East is the cradle of civilization.

The birthplace of mankind.

This is where Skynet begins?

European civilization had its birth in these lands.

It was born here.

See, Tokyo is the fashion capital... on this side of the planet, all right?

This is the birthplace of many of the world's earliest civilizations.

The World Bank projects by 2011, it will be under 20 million, which is a reduction of 95 percent.

Some of the earliest artifacts of this symbolic merging are found in ancient Mesopotamia, now modern Iraq, home of the Sumerians.

And guess what?

The example I have here is a chair that came out of the year in Bali clearly influenced by local manufacturing and culture, not being stuck behind a single computer screen all day long and be here and there.

Valencia is the third largest city in Spain and is also known for being the birthplace of paella.

It's also working in live animal markets these wet markets which is exactly the place where

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

Alice knows Bob is equally intelligent.

Visiting Greece is an experience not a one time visit. Henry Miller wrote a whole book and still didn't come close to describing it in one sense

So a fair criticism is what it is of Second Life today is that it's more like the Wild West than it is like Rome, from a cultural standpoint.

last month we had our second Doha Tribeca Film Festival here in Doha.

I want to get a fix on local culture.

Basically Zipcar is the largest car sharing company in the world.

There are many cultures on Earth.

Why? Why are we looking up? Is it because it's heaven?

The two regions differ in religion and culture.

It's really hard. And so it's certainly the hard road.

The Dilemma of Multiculturalism

And then some people in Chicago came along and they said,

It's not confined to its own lineage.

India has a cuisine rich in regional flavour.

And whatever we find there, there our system will grow!

It is the the capital of Zhijiang Province.

But I'm saying the culture makes people dumb.

How's this for culture?

They cared for their sick and infirmed and buried their dead, not so very different culturally from early Homo sapiens.

All along, all fantasy books have always had maps, but these maps have been static.

Thanks very much.

So where do we go?

And that is We are losing our tolerance for vulnerability.

This is evolution. Copy, transform and combine.

The Shuttle was riddled with problems like that.

Lessig Bingo. That's the point.

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

And as a result, our ideas do accumulate, and our technology progresses.

They said culture.

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