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Old 05-03-2013, 01:59 PM
 
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Old 05-19-2013, 03:29 PM
 
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Chipotle opening up in the UK
I don’t see how this is related to the topic.

I bet the UK/England couldn’t care less about Chipotle, and noticing it just does not qualify for the greatest revolutionary occurrences in the world topic. Or maybe the UK does care about Mexican cuisine, desperately wanting an overrated fast food chain for Mexican food, and the UK would do anything just to have some chipotle stores opening over there.Lol...

I prefer independent restaurants, and supermarkets compared to almost any fast food chain. It is healthier for nutrition, and more exciting for food scene.



I quoted the posts below for what I believe are the real ultimate revolutionary occurrences in the world for the past 10 to 20 years, and some other posts having similar opinions:

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There is a large amount of revolutionary occurrences happening in the world for the past 10 to 20 years:

1. The continued increase of globalization.

2. Higher quality, more varied, and much more easily accessible Science/Technological products/design, especially with Computers, but with some other things too such as cameras, tv, ipod, cars, airplanes, public transportation etc.

3. More versatility and individual freedoms for people's lives in more countries and more places.

4. The prominent role and influence of the internet in modern society, including variety of important websites, and growing amount of useful websites.

5. Independent Café Bars that have computer wifi where people are able to go those places and literally use their computer away from home for hours and hours in cafe bars that have an exciting ambience, and plenty of seating/tables.

6. Maintaining a balance between having local authentic culture and also globalization/cosmopolitan diversity.

7. Individualism vs. Collective consciousness vs. group responsibilities. Freedom can be part of the picture and does not have to be sacrificed or compromised to the establishment and foundations of society. The individual freedom comes first more than ever before, but the collective consciousness of society also collaterally influence and affects a lot of what happens in existence.

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Internet penetration and the rise of algorithms for everything. It's completely changed how news and information spread, the way that people gather and interact, and how the understanding of the world works. It's provided an incredible cat and mouse game for vital information around the world. The world wide web project, started by a researcher at cern, which directed networked information from small closed in groups to one navigable with a standardized shared protocol has changed things to an incredible extent in so many ways and forms that it's impossibly complex to understand.

There's a surfeit of research and proof of how it's changed everything. Some examples are the way that local businesses have been able to proliferate because the buy-in for making people aware of their business has moved away from the massive chains that have the immense advertising budgets to leverage awareness of their business. There are huge academic paper repositories that allow researchers from around the world and hobbyists who have great incremental improvements to join in on the dialogue towards certain goals. There are massive analytic engines to tell us about different sociological circumstances around the world. There is a huge dissemination of knowledge about music, films, television shows, cultural practices, recipes, etc. to every corner of the world and socioeconomic bracket rather than having industry and hobbyist bits of information catering to just a tiny reach of people. There is a huge base of information about different physiological and mental conditions allowing for a whole slew of medical practices to become widespread. There are massive shifts of financial assessments for companies around the world that are now put in flux on a microsecond to microsecond basis. The are machine and human-assisted translation works for both the written word and the context for accessing information from different cultures. The world wide web has so massively changed nearly every facet of life from the personal to the global that it's ridiculous to believe anything else has created anywhere near the kind of sea change that's happened.

The frightening thing is how quickly we became so completely accustomed to it infiltrating so many parts of our life with (relatively) rarely any second thoughts. It was almost a completely incidental thing that we ended up with hypertext transfer protocol which was meant for rapid sharing of information between physicists, and it's now become the de facto way the world communicates.
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This sounds like its particular to your experience, I highly doubt intergenerational interactions in most countries have changed all that radically, and it certainly hasn't been the case in my own under twenty five life. Seems like generations always more or less socialized with themselves, but interacted with each other about as much as now. In fact, if anything parents seem to be a bit more involved with their children now than in the hand off past as family size has shrunk, we have more people learning from their elders in schools now, and they do so for longer, and generations still interact with each other at work.

I think the single most important fact of the modern age is falling birth rates across the globe. This has radical implications for the directions developing and developed countries will take, and it completely dictates how economies will evolve, and how governments will function. Demography = destiny.

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Just what I had in mind. The presence is everywhere in the world in which we currently live. Go almost anywhere on Earth and you'll probably encounter these important revolutionary occurrences.

Perfect response, *******....

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True in its own way, but it is the immediacy of access to knowledge that is a potential blockbuster. Just 20 years ago, it would have taken two weeks to access a fact that can now be found (and acted upon) in less than a minute. Half the people in the world could never have accessed many facts in their lifetime, which they can now google in seconds.

This enables political and social movements to proceed at literally the speed of light, whereas a single generation ago, it would have taken a decade for a person to disseminate an idea to a large enough body of people to have any social or political impact, by which time it would be an anachronism.

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I think that due to the immediacy and availability of knowledge (due to the internet, cellphones, etc.), there will be a transparency movement in the world. What I mean by this is that people will grow more cynical, want more proof of something, and less secrets.

However, it should not be underestimated the power of censorship, even for the internet. Also while there is a lot of accurate information of the internet, there are also many fallacies that people may latch onto.
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The proliferation of the internet into the innermost corners of the human experience and plenty of other activities in life not even related to internet.

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Old 07-28-2013, 03:30 AM
 
Location: Lafayette, IN
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This is really an impossible question, given how interdependent the various phenomenon and trends related to globalization are. Perhaps the obvious answer, if one must be given, would be the internet which took the globalization process that was already under way and put it into hyperdrive. However, there are incredibly important developments, or 'revolutions', in other areas that are not directly tied to the dramatic communication/information revolution of the past two decades. The 'Green Revolution' of the 1970s that allowed Asian countries to transform their agricultural sectors in ways that made famines decreasingly likely and which allowed for both a substantial increase in fertility (followed by a plateau) and for massive migration from rural to urban areas thus bringing about economic and human development through an increase in the labor supply available for industrial and service sector economies.

Better transportation to facilitate trade, dramatic improvements in the way diseases are understood and combated, the rise of incredibly powerful IGOs like the World Bank and IMF, the rise of corporations as international powers in their own right... all of these are important - it doesn't make much sense to single one out as the 'most important' - they are all integral pieces of the larger picture.
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