And so we start our designs with that question.

So that's how the five part framework is relevant to the collapse and eventual extinction of the Greenland Norse.

Imagine how vulnerable the system is to deliberate attacks.

I represent a group of civilizations.

Imagine that it's 4,000 years into the future.

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

Modern civilization rests on a foundation of science and education.

In the ancient Mayan city of Takal.

The computer was cracked open.

The professor is familiar with contemporary literature.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

It shook me because that's how a dark age begins.

This is a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization.

He studies contemporary literature.

He is at home in modern English literature.

Now, while 4Shbab and The 99 may look new and shiny, there is actually a very long tradition of this.

The decipherment of these two scripts enabled these civilizations to speak to us again directly.

The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization.

We discovered relics of an ancient civilization.

The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.

In theory, you could compose it over here as well.

This is a picture of culture.

Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this. The peak of your civilization.

I think all of us have been interested, at one time or another, in the romantic mysteries of all those societies that collapsed, such as the classic Maya in the Yucatan, the Easter Islanders, the Anasazi, Fertile Crescent society, Angor Wat, Great Zimbabwe and so on.

It's a very important period it's roughly half the period when we've been fully modern humans on the planet.

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Contrary to the sound, the anti hero is not the villain, not the antagonist.

Let's go to 40,000 years before the present, to the time of the cultural explosion, when music, art, technology, so many of the things that we're enjoying today, so many of the things that are being demonstrated at TED were born.

Mr. Uef! I am a representative of a civilized planet, and I demand that you mind your lexicon!

The cultures of the world are now becoming rather similar.

Fumihiko? I know you're busy but it's Christmas Eve, dear.

Sure, if we get it wrong, we could face the end of this civilization, but if we get it right, it could be the beginning of civilization instead.

Off camera. Male voice

Three, property rights.

Why should we care?

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Now, is there any alternative to this?

We live in the atomic age.

The problem is obviously relevant to our situation today, because today as well, there are some societies that have already collapsed, such as Somalia and Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.

We don't see anything like that over here.

It's the oldest mammalian derived life form that we know of.

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Where is this group of civilizations?

So, now when we look at everywhere around us, everything is so hard to get.

Ancient Runes?