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As the web turns 30, we might also take note of another 50/50 moment. Today, 50% of the world’s population is under the age of 30. This means that more of the world’s population have been born into a world with the web than not. In South Africa, the children born after the end of apartheid are called the Born-Free.
And it’s doing so at breakneck speed. Here are six observations and predictions for the way social media is changing the world from experts from the Global Agenda Council. 1. Across industries, social media is going from a “nice to have” to an essential component of any business strategy.
Similar growth can be seen on a global scale; while less than 7% of the world was online in 2000, today over half the global population has access to the internet. Similar trends can be seen in cellphone use. At the start of the 2000s, there were 740 million cell phone subscriptions worldwide. Two decades later, that number has surpassed 8 ...
But global warming is already changing the way many of us live or think. 1. Health suffers because of climate change. Climate change is the biggest health threat facing humanity, the World Health Organization says, estimating that it will cause around a quarter of a million additional deaths each year in 2030-50.
But the contributions of Black people don’t just apply to Black history, or even simply American or Canadian history. Black people have impacted politics, culture and the economy around the world; Black history is world history. Here are seven figures that show that the story of Black people has always had global impact.
Before Cathy Come Home was released in 1966, nobody spoke about the issue: “Homelessness hadn’t been in the spotlight before,” said the drama’s director Ken Loach. After the drama aired, all that changed. “The sense of public outrage that this was happening sort of grew. It became like a storm that gathered pace.”.
Sojourner Truth. In 2014, the Smithsonian magazine voted her one of the 100 most influential Americans of all time. But outside of the United States, few people will have heard of Sojourner Truth, an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights campaigner. Born into slavery, she was separated from her family when she was nine.
1984 by George Orwell. George Orwell’s dystopian work about life under a totalitarian regime inspired a whole subgenre of books, such as Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, that envision the future as a nightmarish place with no freedoms or rights. Terms from 1984, including “Big Brother”, “doublethink” and “thoughtcrime” are ...
Global impact. In the past 12 months, those figures have risen to more than 118 million cases across the globe, with more than 2.6 million deaths. COVID-19 has also had an impact on livelihoods and education, as lockdowns have led to economic recession and job losses, while schools have also been closed – shining a spotlight on inequalities ...
Here's how the pandemic has changed societies: futurists explain. Mar 1, 2022. A panel of experts anticipated that online education could be one aspect of the pandemic that is here to stay. Image: Julia M Cameron for Pexels. In early 2020, a panel of experts was convened to consider what the long-term impacts of the pandemic might be on our ...