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"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world."
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Source: Wiring a web for global good. TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.
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