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When you say “in the world today” I assume you are talking about the past 10 to 20 years.
If that is the case, I would say that the greatest revolutionary occurrences during that time period are:
2. Higher quality, more varied, and much more easily accessible Science/Technology products, especially with Computers, but with some other things too.
Just what I had in mind. The presence of mobile devices (i.e. cell phones mp3 players) are everywhere in the world in which we currently live. Go almost anywhere on Earth and you'll probably see people on cell phones, chatting away!
Great response, ....sorry, I took so long to respond.
The Internet is just the consolidation of all the technologies before it into one entity.
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 for even an urban American 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.
What would Jesus, or Moses, or Mohammed have done with 4-G? Or Gandhi, or Franklin or Hitler or Mao? More importantly, how many people with that kind of charisma potential are out there now? With 4-G?
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 for even an urban American 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.
What would Jesus, or Moses, or Mohammed have done with 4-G? Or Gandhi, or Franklin or Hitler or Mao? More importantly, how many people with that kind of charisma potential are out there now? With 4-G?
Many mobile devices today, such as cell phones, possess the internet as well as many other features.
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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When you say “in the world today” I assume you are talking about the past 10 to 20 years.
If that is the case, I would say that the greatest revolutionary occurrences during that time period are:
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, ipod, etc.
3. More versatility and individual freedoms for people's lives in more countries and more places.
I am sure there is some other beneficial revolutionary occurrence that was not said yet:
4. The prominent role and influence of the internet in modern society, including variety of important websites, and growing amount of useful websites.
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 influences and affects a lot of what happens in existence.
In this ever changing world we currently live, what one incidental thing or occurrence, is the most revolutionary throughout the world?
In the past 200 years or so, the internal combustion engine, the development of fuels to drive them, that as well as electricity to drive other machinery, and their application to farming and manufacturing. Also antibiotics.
In the past 20 years or so, information and telecommunications technology.
In the past five years or so, fracking, on the one hand, and renewable energy technology and applications, on the other.
I have read that new strains of bacteria are resistant to antibiotics, right now in hospitals; hopefully they do not spread to the general population and in any case that new antibiotics are developed.
The Internet/cell phones and the global consumerist society they're creating. That goes back 20-30 years but it's certainly still happening now. Many people still don't have the Internet but I think by 2020 almost everyone in the world will be online.
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The Internet/cell phones and the global consumerist society they're creating. That goes back 20-30 years but it's certainly still happening now. Many people still don't have the Internet but I think by 2020 almost everyone in the world will be online.
You sure enjoy the internet so much and the internet’s role in the world.
Well, technically there was always a global consumerist culture existing, but a new version of a global consumerist culture formed in recent modern times that shows a different configuration in world activity.
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.
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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