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Image: REUTERS/Stephen Hird. This article is part of: Pioneers of Change Summit. 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.
Emerging Technologies. This timeline charts the fast pace of tech transformation across centuries. Feb 27, 2023. This article is reposted from Our World in Data. Technology has become increasingly powerful in recent decades. Image: Unsplash/Maxim Hopman. Max Roser. Programme Director,Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Share: Our Impact.
- We Became Glued to Our Smartphones
- We Witnessed The Organizing Power – and Danger – of Social Media
- We Saw The Effects of Climate Change Become Very Real
- We Bounced Back from The Recession, But Inequality Grew
- We Saw The Human Toll and Politicization of The Global Migration Crisis
- We Had Hard Conversations About Sex and Power
- We Watched Countries Grapple with LGBTQ Rights and Representation
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, he promised the “revolutionary” devicewould “reinvent the phone.” By most measures, he was correct. Around 81 percent of Americansowned smartphones as of this past February, compared with 35 percent in 2011. We use them to find directions, read the news, take pictures and even doing our banki...
Over the past 10 years, the popularity of existing social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp grew exponentially, and new social media sites, including Instagram, Telegram and TikTok were launched. Some of those social networking sites have been used to organize anti-government movements around the world. They played an instrument...
Over the past decade, the threat of climate change became more tangible for communities around the world. In California, “mega wildfires” wiped out entire towns, burning across larger areas than in previous years. Europe suffered through a record-breaking heat wave, and a “blob” of warm ocean waterdisrupted marine ecosystems off the coast of Alaska...
The U.S. economy largely recovered from the 2008 recession over the past decade, with GDP growing steadily and unemployment reaching a 50-year low. Still, a majority of economists recently said in a survey that they expect a recession to occur in 2021,and many Americans remain dissatisfied with the state of the economy. Income inequality has worsen...
Two of the most striking photos of the decade showed the human toll of the global migration crisis. One, taken in 2015, showed a three-year-old Syrian boy named Aylan Kurdi, whose body was found washed up on a beach in Turkey. He had drowned after being separated from the rest of his family, which fled the Syrian Civil War and were trying to reach ...
The #MeToo movement first began in 2006, but it gained national and international attention after news articles in 2017 shed light on Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s serial harassment of women in the entertainment industry. Women around the world came forward with stories of being mistreated in the workplace. Those accusations led to the resi...
The decade started with the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,a Clinton-era policy that had banned openly LGBTQ members from serving in the military. While it was a landmark legislative achievement for the LGBTQ community, gay couples were still not allowed to marry under federal law in 2010. The U.S. legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015 wi...
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It began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 2100. It is the first century of the 3rd millennium . The rise of a global economy and Third World consumerism marked the beginning of the century, along with increased private enterprise and deepening concern over terrorism after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
21st Century. The 21st century saw the dawn of the war on terrorism, as the 9/11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing dramatically changed society. Economic issues moved to the forefront...
Dec 31, 2019 · The human family tree expanded significantly in the past decade, with fossils of new hominin species discovered in Africa and the Philippines. The decade began with the discovery and ...
Jun 30, 2021 · The twenty-first century offers such a moment in the study of human societies. A vastly larger share of behaviours is observed today than would have been imaginable at the close of the...
