More than half of the worlds population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050.
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Renzo Piano is a builder of shelters for human beings and communities.
“I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth,” says global strategist Parag Khanna. As our expanding cities grow ever more connected through transportation, energy and communications networks, we evolve from geography to what he calls “connectography.” This emerging global network civilisation holds the promise of reducing pollution and inequality and even overcoming geopolitical rivalries. In this talk, Khanna asks us to embrace a new maxim for the future: “Connectivity is destiny.”