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Almost everyone comes to the conclusion that whatever their time is,
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is a critical time in human history,
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so I'm not sure that I would buy an absolute argument,
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but I think it's fair to say that we're at a tipping point in terms of
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people's access to computer based information.
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For the first time, people are going to be coming together
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from every corner of the world, and be able
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to engage in direct conversation with each other.
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[birds chirping] ♫
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[Lidia] [sings]
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Here, life is beautiful.
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It's beautiful because there are trees...
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and the trees protect you from the sun.
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There's also a lot of bugs.
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More than the bugs, I get bored.
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I want to learn more about the things that I don't know.
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When we first used the laptops, we didn't know what they were.
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And the way we learned was...
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when one classmate learned how to do something...
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they would teach another classmate.
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And that classmate would teach another classmate...
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and like that we all learned.
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What interests me most are legends...
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also the land.
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Also on the computers you can go on Wikipedia and search.
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Wikipedia is where there is all of the information.
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Whatever you want to know about, you can look for.
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And you can find things that you never...
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things you never knew, you can find on Wikipedia.
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[Victor, Lidia's father]
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I was born in Ayacucho.
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I didn't study because of my parents, they didn't support me.
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The laptops – my daughter, pretty much already knows how to use it.
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She teaches me the histories of different countries...
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the United States, Brazil, China.
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I want her to have a profession...
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to have a better education than me.
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[Michael]
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I am from New York City.
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This is a city that's very far from here.
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I want to introduce all of you to my city.
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Now, I want to know more information about your village...
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Palestina, Peru.
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Michael, there isn't anything.
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There isn't anything?
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In that case, what we need to do today...
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is we need to write a page for Palestina, Peru.
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When did we arrive here?
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In 1989.
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I think it's really exciting to think about having amazing new cultural influences on ideas,
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flowing all around the world from different cultures.
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So I think we've really barely scratched the surface of
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what is possible through collaboration.
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If you think about it, doing an encyclopedia is one of the easiest things.
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This part here is what I did.
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Ahh, the pictures we took!
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Palestina, Peru is a village located in the region of Purus...
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in the department of Ucayali...
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in Peru.
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I see collaboration, especially computer mediated collaboration,
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as an extremely enabling tool for the population of the world,
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and I hope what it will do is uncover voices and ideas that might be invisible otherwise.
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The interesting thing is that as we get more and more of the population up on the Internet,
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the avenues for interaction will become much richer,
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and here, I am not capable of predicting what the outcome will be
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when six billion people are online sharing their knowledge with each other.
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♫