Jeffrey Sachs - 2020 Shaping Ideas

[dragonfart28]

huh.. looks like the astroturfers are out in full force. Competing interests must be pretty scared of this guy.

[JunLiga]

I think the concept of using wireless conectivity as a means to inspire and educate people can be worthwhile.

[zsezse215]

'We must also guard against the equal and opposite danger that public policy itself could become the captive of a scientific technological elite' Eisenhowers Farewell Address We are living Orwells 1984 philipnute com

[ConstructiveMinds100]

@Objetivismo Fully agree with you. This guy is totaly disconected from the real world. Another humanist who lucks common sense and logic. Fudalism is already back even in developed countries. MOre people on this planet will only deteriorate this situation.

[MalNaprej]

Jeffrey Sachs is talking about poverty? Everywhere he went to "build" a better economy there was even greater poverty than before. Look at Poland for instance, in the early 90's he went there with the economy plan for a better Poland yet Poland is now a country with the biggest unemployment rate in the European union. Dear Jeffrey u and ur neo-liberalism ideas are pure garbage.

[pandoreman]

51208 views are enough, Sachs virus can not be spread out through a wise network.. Now youth knows; and this is NOT the solution.

[blackrobe2007]

I see then Jeffrey Sachs has finally adopted William Easterly's approach. Let the "searchers" find a way.

[darwincity]

@Objetivismo OK, but such a shift will require, before anything else, two key elements in any functioning country: a functional and efficient justice and antitrust system. Looking at the corruption in those countries, any attempt at capitalism conversion would look like Russia rather than Poland. There is a need to prepare such a system, either through dictatorship (Chile) or through the emergence of a paternalistic figure which reassures the population in change (Czech Republic and Poland).

[Soljaboy3040]

@Objetivismo If you have a cell phone, you have a job. If you have a job, you have money...

[christian7000]

Mr Sachs, I don't think you really care for the poor African people. You are a very good friend and advocate of one of the dictators of Africa, Mr Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. Don't try to sound like you care for humanity.

[tokyorose999]

this video made me cry the first time watching it... we are so close .... its quite beautiful

[bojisti]

Eastern Europe is still experiencing the "success" of Sachs' shock therapy that let to the exodus of millions of young people. Beware! Neoliberal in sheep's clothing! Cell phones as a solution- I hear Marie Antoinette's "let them eat cake". Not to mention the devastating effect on the environment. The bourgeois intellectual's fetishistic notion of technology without taking into account social relations and structures of power is a great excuse for the next failure of his grand visions.

[darwincity]

@bojisti Well, it does have higher economic growth rates than Western Europe, and the general economic outlook for Europe would be much bleaker for Europe without Eastern Europe. Also, some time in the future, I do think that the people who left Eastern Europe will come back, just to experience the higher growth rates and the economic prosperity such things can bring to someone's life...

[bojisti]

@darwincity Do you even know if this so called "economic growth" translates into actual social well-being, or you are just too busy repeating a 40 year old lie about a "triple down effect" that never manifested itself. The theological belief that human beings are driven by "economic rationality" and the dismissal of social responsibility has led to unprecedented psychotic behavior of bankers and corporate CIOs and that is what has increased poverty and suffering around the world.

[LokiClock]

Look! [Lion looks.] Just over the next hill-- Is the end of extreme poverty. [Man standing in a suit.]

[mightysywrule]

Sachs has good intensions but rather utopian ideas.

[IlyaKhleboyko]

I deeply abhor Jeffery Sachs. His "Shock Therapy" has brought millions of people to starvation and economic hardness in the FSU. My family and I went through it, and let me assure you, it was "shocking". I would not wish it on any human being.

[zerovirus01]

@IlyaKhleboyko

florida state university?

[cornylamer]

@breninmalawi

Here is a good man, doing what he can for people of Africa. What have you done?

[FreedomLiberty21]

we need entrepreneurs and innovators now more than ever to work with NGOs and other organizations to really connect the whole world with technology.

Dr.Sachs is right.

We are a privileged generation because at this time, we truly have it within our means eradicate so many of the worst social problems our ancestors have faced.

[syborius]

nice video ericsson threw together here, quality stuff, makes me consider working for such a company.

[Coreanist]

inspiring..

[TestMyVidsOut]

I know him.