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Reformer and author of A Future World Vision Richard Smith examines the growing challenges in an uncertain geopolitical climate – technological developments present complex questions of ethics, democracy, extremist beliefs and personal freedom. How will civilisation overcome barriers to the practical development of humanity, and how do we plan to manage this change?

Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers (Glastonbury Symposium), July 2011

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