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Ted: Ted Ed: Navigating Our Global Future Unit PlanTed: Ted Ed: Navigating Our Global Future Unit Plan
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9th - 10th
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Ted: Ted Ed: Navigating Our Global Future

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As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet realize the possibility of improved life for everyone. Ian Goldin is director of the 21st Century School at Oxford. Through the school's program of research, collaboration and education, he's powering new, cross-disciplinary thinking about global problems from the near and far future. [7:06]

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climate change, financial crises, pandemics, sustainability

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