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San Francisco 2.0 is a documentary film by Alexandra Pelosi for HBO, in which she examines the past of San Francisco, and speculates on what the future holds for it in the light of gentrification resulting from the dot-com boom. San Francisco 2.0 was nominated for the Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form Emmy in 2015. [1]
Health 2.0 "Health 2.0" is a term introduced in the mid-2000s, as the subset of health care technologies mirroring the wider Web 2.0 movement. It has been defined variously as including social media, user-generated content, and cloud-based and mobile technologies.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. American businessman and entrepreneur (born 1944) Larry Ellison Ellison in 2010 Born Lawrence Joseph Ellison (1944-08-17) August 17, 1944 (age 80) New York City, U.S. Education University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (no degree) University of Chicago (no degree) Occupations Businessman ...
Many locals in San Francisco attribute the negative effects of gentrification to the large number of technology companies in the surrounding metropolitan area. Private shuttle buses operated by companies such as Google have driven up rents in areas near their stops, leading to the San Francisco tech bus protests from locals in the area. [4]
Yellow Faced Tiger (Chinese: 黄面老虎, originally released in the United States as Slaughter in San Francisco) is a 1974 Hong Kong-American martial arts action film directed by Lo Wei, and starring Wong Tao, Sylvia Chang and Chuck Norris.
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco purchased the property and the surrounding area expanding the site to 1,112 acres (450 ha) beginning in August 1930. [6] The airport's name was officially changed to San Francisco Airport in 1931 upon the purchase of the land. "International" was added at the end of World War II as overseas service rapidly expanded. [citation needed]
The ethnic makeup of San Francisco is 15.2% Hispanics or Latinos of any race (15.2%), 84.98% Non-Hispanic. According to the 2020 census, San Francisco has a minority-majority population, as non-Hispanic European Americans comprise less than half of the population at 39.8%, down from 92.5% in 1940. [9]