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Steven Johnson wants to know how enlightenment happens

The TED Interview

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Is the Internet a Force for Good?

i was definitely drawn into it and very, um, excited about it. But even in emergence, i talked a lot about the dangers of decentralized communities on line. The work of being an optimist is not to say everything's fine, you know, no problem here. It's to say, there're going to be problems, but if we apply ourselves to these problems, when we think about them seriously, they can be solved.

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