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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.
And it’s doing so at breakneck speed. Here are six observations and predictions for the way social media is changing the world from experts from the Global Agenda Council. 1. Across industries, social media is going from a “nice to have” to an essential component of any business strategy.
Before Cathy Come Home was released in 1966, nobody spoke about the issue: “Homelessness hadn’t been in the spotlight before,” said the drama’s director Ken Loach. After the drama aired, all that changed. “The sense of public outrage that this was happening sort of grew. It became like a storm that gathered pace.”.
Some perspective on how fast and profound these rapid changes are. The percentage of US adults who use social media increased from 5% in 2005 to 79% in 2019. Even on a global stage the speed of diffusion is striking: Facebook surged from covering around 1.5% of the world population in 2008, to around 30% in 2018.
The Schwab Foundation’s 2022 Social Innovators of the Year includes a list of outstanding founders, multinational and regional business leaders, government leaders and recognized experts. Through value based and innovative approaches, centring on inclusivity, collaboration and sustainability, these fifteen change leaders are transforming the ...
Jeffrey E. Garten’s new book, From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives, pinpoints the 10 key people who changed the world and ushered in new eras of globalization, starting with a nuanced look at Genghis Khan and hopping to characters including a British prime minister and a Portuguese prince.
Madeleine Hillyer. 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. Just over 20 years ago, the dotcom ...
This is where art can make a difference. Art does not show people what to do, yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your senses, body, and mind. It can make the world felt. And this felt feeling may spur thinking, engagement, and even action. As an artist I have travelled to many countries around the world over the past 20 years.
Computing is creating platforms on which it reinvents itself, reaching up to the next platform. Getting connected. Arguably, the most dramatic of these innovations is the web. During the 1970s and 1980s, there were independent advances in the availability of cheap, fast computing, of affordable disk storage and of networking.
Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world. New research has revised previous estimates of how much humans change the Earth’s land surface. It's found that 720,000 square kilometres of land surface has changed annually since 1960, an area twice the size of Germany. Despite ...