So to this very, very savvy crowd, I also want to note the digital folks did not invent disruptive.

But even the most determined autocrat cannot fully control political activity online. Tech savvy young people tend to circumvent attempts at official censorship.

Pastoralist systems are 20 more productive than traditional ranching methods. And pastoralists are more market savvy than many believe the Horn of Africa s pastoral livestock and meat trade is estimated to be worth 1 billion.

I'm used to thinking of the TED audience as a wonderful collection of some of the most effective, intelligent, intellectual, savvy, worldly and innovative people in the world.

Indeed, China has developed the world s most sophisticated system of Internet blocking and censorship, thereby hiding information unfavorable to China s rulers from all but the most technologically savvy.

For those with the skills, capital, and savvy to prosper in the post industrial age, services offered inordinate opportunities. Bankers, consultants, and engineers earned much higher wages than their industrial age forebears.

Everywhere, incumbent regimes have mounted resistance. The unforgettable scene of camel and horse riding Mubarak supporters beating tech savvy Egyptian protesters signals that the old order will not yield without a fight.

Most families owned a house, so they were automatically participating in the boom. And many homeowners, eager to participate even more in the boom and feel like savvy capitalists, bought more expensive houses than they normally would.

By contrast, sophisticated investors, such as big stock market players, are unlikely to fall prey to this trap. But homebuyers are not as savvy, so they may not see the change coming or they may fail to plan for it.

We can stand by and watch a new generation of web savvy Muslim youth be deluged with false claims that Islam cannot coexist with Western values. Or we can recognize that the young people of the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world share the aspirations of young people in every other part of the world.

Twitter is largely blocked by China s great firewall (GFW), which prevents Chinese people from accessing certain sites. Yet Twitter has an almost religious following among tech savvy Chinese, whose determination to use the service outstrips authorities efforts to block access to it.

G 20 governments, especially those with strong balance sheets, should be calling for large scale public and private infrastructure investment to expand the productive capacity of member economies. In the area of tax avoidance, discussion needs to broaden beyond developed economies as the International Monetary Fund recently pointed out, developing economies budgets are disproportionately affected by multinational companies savvy accounting strategies.

If you think about the last three decades, the consumer has moved from savvy about marketing in the '90s, to gathering all these amazing social and search tools in this decade, but the one thing that has been holding them back is the ability to discriminate.

Jeff Smith spent a year in prison. But what he discovered inside wasn t what he expected he saw in his fellow inmates boundless ingenuity and business savvy. He asks Why don't we tap this entrepreneurial potential to help ex prisoners contribute to society once they're back outside?

During his tenure in office, he funded early stage technology companies, hired the city s first chief digital officer, and launched a new university to develop high tech talent. Similar policies are now being implemented in many urban areas, in order to attract a critical mass of creative, technologically savvy people.

This transformation has placed the world in the hands of a younger generation, more technologically savvy than their parents and connected to one another through social networks that are not confined by territory, language, or government. The young leaders who created Facebook and Google have had a greater global impact than many statesmen and generals.

To win this high stakes contest, democratic societies must look beyond battlefield victory and focus on winning hearts and minds through the power of ideas and the promise of meaningfulness just as the Islamic State has done. The notion that democracies can fend off such forces, with their well resourced and media savvy ideological apparatuses, with guns alone is a sure loser.

Needless to say, the ability to comprehend change has become indispensable at a time when the world is experiencing tectonic geopolitical shifts. The new Middle East that is emerging before us is probably both post Western, given the rise of new powers, and post Islamist, with the revolt led by young, technologically savvy people with no ties to political Islam whatsoever.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai, the once swaggering, media savvy former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief of Chongqing, veered anomalously into improvisation. Before the proceedings began, the conventional wisdom was that Bo s trial had been carefully scripted and rehearsed to portray a forlorn and penitent sinner confessing his crimes and apologizing to the Party.

To implement effective security, the entities best equipped to do so, the Internet service providers, must take the lead. They are technically savvy organizations with the ability (more or less) to protect users and detect abusers they have a direct (though impersonal) relationship with their users and they compete for users business, so that, unlike governments, they will suffer if they perform badly.

Microsoft s contribution to Chinese political repression follows Yahoo s role in the sentencing of a dissident reporter and Google s decision not to display search results that are blocked by what has become known as the Great Chinese Firewall. Indeed, China has developed the world s most sophisticated system of Internet blocking and censorship, thereby hiding information unfavorable to China s rulers from all but the most technologically savvy.

In the final analysis, whether the next rate increase comes in September, October or whenever and it looks like September notwithstanding current warning signs like IFO that suggest a possible slowdown in the coming monthsamp 45 amp 45 the data will determine how far the ECB goes with its rate hikes if the bank is savvy enough to keep the politicians at bay. But this is a big if .

Be curious be conversational be real.

Be bold. Stand up. Be fearless. Be confident.

I'm saying, Be careful, be careful, be careful.

Could be, could be.

And if you do, be genuine about it. Be honest. Be up front.

There will be wars there will be depressions there will be natural disasters.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.

Don't be Hassan. Don't be Hussein.

Can be worse, can be better.

Be prepared to be good neighbors.

It'll be fine, don't be afraid!

This can be a factor, and everybody can be saying it's counterintuitive. It can be a story, it can be experience.

They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic.

Light would be dragged down the hole as everything else would be, and all that would be left would be a shadow.

Anything that can be misunderstood will be.

Be diligent, don't worry or be annoyed.

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

You could be American Italian you could be American Irish you could be British Pakistani.

Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate, says Yahweh.

Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate, says Yahweh.

These could be considered to be quite comprehensive though their scope could possibly be expanded further and they can be made more gender sensitive.