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This visualization provides a timeline of what happened on morning of 9/11. In the space of three hours, two planes hit the World Trade Center, one plane hit the Pentagon and one crashed in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 died during the attacks, and many more suffer ongoing conditions from injuries and smoke inhalation.
A member of staff who was working in the White House on 9/11 has shared her personal account of that day. When news came of the plane crashing into the World Trade Center, the Secret Service evacuated the White House.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, New York City adopted anti-terrorism and surveillance technologies, which would lay the foundation for smart cities.
In many ways, the post-9/11 scramble by airport officials to address security concerns was similar to the impulse to address public health concerns in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, when plastic barriers, hand sanitizers and floor markings encouraging social distancing appeared at airports throughout the U.S.
The 9/11 attacks shattered more than lives and property. The attacks, and the US government’s response, also shattered the boundaries between war and peace.
The idea was unconventional at the time, but it has since taken hold. It was Professor Klaus Schwab’s “stakeholder theory”, conceptualized in a book, and meaning that a company should serve all its stakeholders, not just its shareholders: employees, suppliers, and the community it is part of.
A timeline of everything that happened on 9/11 Catching fire: AI is helping scarce firefighters better predict blazes 9/11 Illnesses Still Have a Devastating Impact on Firefighters.
When Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba in 2018 announced it had chosen the ancient city of Xi’an as the site for its new regional headquarters, the symbolic value wasn’t lost on the company: it had brought globalization to its ancient birthplace, the start of the old Silk Road.
On September 11th, 2001, two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, killing nearly 3,000 people.
On September 10 2001 my wife and I arrived in New York as I was to receive the Candlelight award from then-UN-Secretary-General Kofi Annan. That night we had a very inspiring conversation with Annan and many members and partners of the World Economic Forum.