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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 ...
The World Economic Forum’s EDISON Alliance aims to digitally connect 1 billion people to essential services like healthcare, education and finance by 2025. On 24 January 1984, Apple unveiled the Macintosh 128K and changed the face of personal computers forever. Steve Jobs’ compact, user-friendly computer introduced the graphical user ...
Max Roser. The pace of technological change is much faster now than it has been in the past, according to Our World in Data. It took 2.4 million years for our ancestors to control fire and use it for cooking, but 66 years to go from the first flight to humans landing on the moon. AI could have a fundamentally transformative impact on our world ...
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.
The world is still figuring out the right technology base for long-duration ESSs, but there are multiple options: flow batteries, non-lithium-ion non-flow batteries, gravity-based ESSs, heat-based ESSs and hydrogen–and a winner, or winners are sure to emerge. In short, the future for how we build cities is charged with potential.
2. A far-reaching energy transformation. In 2025, carbon footprints will be viewed as socially unacceptable, much like drink driving is today. The COVID-19 pandemic will have focused the public’s attention on the need to take action to deal with threats to our way of life, our health and our future.
The world is once again at a turning point and, once again, technology is part of the solution. Strong leadership by the business community is necessary to ensure that technology is used in a responsible and sustainable way. The focus should be on deploying digital technologies that make the real world much more livable and sustainable.
Faster digital connections, powered by 5G and the IoT, have the potential to unlock economic activity. So much so that implementing faster connections in “mobility, healthcare, manufacturing and retail could increase global GDP by $1.2 trillion to $2 trillion by 2030.” 5G and IoT will be one of the most-watched tech trends for the next decade.
Electric lighting, cars, plastic, the telephone, and television are all less than 150 years old, while newer innovations such as the internet have spurred ever more rapid societal development. Technological advances have boosted productivity by allowing workers to get more done in a day. This helps to increase output and boosts economic growth.
12: China: China’s R&D spend is the second largest in the world, behind the US, and its research investment grew by 9.8% in the latest rankings. 13: Japan: Home to the world's largest science and technology cluster based in Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan is a top 3 Asian nation for filing patents.