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Since the dotcom bubble burst back in 2000, technology has radically transformed our societies and our daily lives. From smartphones to social media and healthcare, here's a brief history of the 21st century's technological revolution. Just over 20 years ago, the dotcom bubble burst, causing the stocks of many tech firms to tumble.
10 jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago. In 2006, Facebook was in its infancy, Twitter was being launched, and nobody had iPhones. Ten years on, the world is a very different place, and so is the workplace. Jobs exist now that we’d never heard of a decade ago. One estimate suggests that 65% of children entering primary school today will ...
With the new Global Goals agreed this autumn (UN 2015), the issue of poverty is at the top of global agenda. In a new book, The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement and Policy, I review past and present debates on poverty, in rich and poor countries. 1. The book strives to provide an accessible synthesis of economic thinking on key questions:
The study, published in Nature journal, is the largest of its kind ever conducted. The research suggests an area covering 2.24 million square kilometers - roughly the combined land surface of Texas and Alaska, two sizeable US states - has been added to global tree cover since 1982. This equates to 7% of the Earth’s surface covered by new trees.
A mere 30 years ago, the country was one of the poorest in the world. How did this southeast Asian nation grow to become a middle-income country? When the 20-year Viet Nam War ended in 1975, Viet Nam’s economy was one of the poorest in the world , and growth under the government’s subsequent five-year central plans was anaemic.
One of the newest of the Top 10 Emerging Technology cohort, electric aviation made it onto our 2020 list. The technology has been around for a while - think about electric gliders for instance - but in the past year innovation has accelerated, driven by a need for the sector to decarbonize. “We’re transitioning to a world with zero carbon.
the population of Manitoba 20 years ago was 943,153 persons. How long ago was the iron age? the iron age happened about 2.5 million years ago. the iron age was followed by the stone age, which ...
There is no special term of a period of 20 years which would be referred to as 'two decades'. You may be thinking of a "score", as in Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address ('Four score and seven years ago ...
Technology, understanding and attitudes towards virtual worlds have advanced in the two decades since Second Life was launched. While, today, interest in a metaverse is a given, 20 years ago fewer people had home internet access or could imagine the idea of occupying a digital environment. “Back then things were different in that computers ...
87 years. True, In old English " score " was a word used to describe the number " 20 ". So what Abraham Lincoln really meant was " 4 periods of twenty years, plus 7 years ago " (87 years ago ...