It allowed for protest, and movements, and the dissemination of new ideas that would repeatedly, decade after decade, change the world -- a constant forward movement that continues to this day.
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Given the serendipity behind so much innovation, it may seem like folly to predict who will change the world--but we're doing it anyway, if for no other reason than to spark creative discussion.
In 2009, when TED awarded me its TED prize and the opportunity to make a wish to change the world - -a wish they would help me fulfil l -- I thought of a mirror.
It's hard to deny that 3D printing has the ability to change the world -- especially after learning about a two-year-old girl who gained the use of her arms with the aid of a 3D-printed robotic exoskeleton (she calls them her "magic arms").
They are co-authors of the forthcoming book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill, May 2008).
And with a simple call, Gandhi would say: To be the change we wish to see in the world -- we are that change.
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Needless to say, the widespread availability of such cars - and the alternative fuels they would utilize - would literally change the world.
South By Southwest has become something of a Mecca for super-achievers, or more accurately, would-be super-achievers hoping to change the world one idea at a time.
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The celebrity change-agents, taste-makers and world shakers are anything but the Photoshopped faces of the weekly gossip rags. (Well, some of them are that as well).
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Humor me for a moment while I tell you about my granddaughter, a beautiful woman-to-be who just might change the world.
For the past 12 years, it has been my privilege to build upon the legacy of one of the single greatest "champions of change" that the world has ever known --Dr. Norman E.
And in a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America -- and change the world.
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Martin Luther King III, president of the King Center, said the archive "is helping to preserve and extend my father's important message to sustain the momentum of non-violent social change around the world".
John Ashton, the world's first climate change diplomat - appointed by the UK - recently retired from his post.
Clearly attitudes to the natural world change over time - and vary between regions.
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They insisted the world could change -- and knowing that destiny is what human beings make of it, they courageously realized the change they sought.
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Now he is trying to repeat this trick to mitigate climate change by co-ordinating bulk-purchase agreements between the governments of some of the world's biggest cities and makers of low-energy products.
Super rich people have homes around the world, and companies have officers around the world, and they can and will change their tax domicile from high-taxing states and the U.S. to Switzerland, Singapore and other more tax friendly jurisdictions.
Among those speaking at the event are international celebrities, such as Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and lesser-known entrepreneurs with a great idea to change the world.
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And, apart from the UK - with its world-leading Climate Change Act - it is hard to find many nations willing to commit themselves to protecting the climate through to 2050 irrespective of their competitors' actions.
Leading scientists, artists, academics and public policy makers will share their experiences and ideas on how light can change the world from revolutionising medicine using cutting-edge technologies and bringing light to communities without electricity, to transforming the places we live with amazing art installations and ground-breaking building design.
The news comes as world leaders struggle to negotiate climate-change policy at the United Nations talks in Durban, South Africa.
If the IT staff makes an inappropriate administrative change, it could expose mission-critical workloads to the world at large, or bring the system to a screeching halt and trigger serious downtime.
Together, they might transform medicine and computing, pollution and poverty, and our understandings of the brain and the cosmos--in short, they really could change the world.
It took World War II to change the worldwide view that the Great War of 1914-1918 was actually World War I.
By helping popularize weight training, supplement and vitamin use, and fitness equipment -- whether in a gym, a school or a home -- Weider helped change the way the world looks at fitness and health, according to Parker.
As a young woman, I had a vision that I would single-handedly change the world one person at a time.
In 1999, before Al Gore taught the world about climate change, an ex-horror fiction writer named Whitley Streiber and a supernatural radio show host named Art Bell joined forces to write The Coming Global Superstorm.
"The real thing is how all your relationships change -- how you change, how you see the world, how the world sees you, " she said.
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