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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.”.
Similar growth can be seen on a global scale; while less than 7% of the world was online in 2000, today over half the global population has access to the internet. Similar trends can be seen in cellphone use. At the start of the 2000s, there were 740 million cell phone subscriptions worldwide. Two decades later, that number has surpassed 8 ...
Global impact. In the past 12 months, those figures have risen to more than 118 million cases across the globe, with more than 2.6 million deaths. COVID-19 has also had an impact on livelihoods and education, as lockdowns have led to economic recession and job losses, while schools have also been closed – shining a spotlight on inequalities ...
During the 1970s and 1980s, there were independent advances in the availability of cheap, fast computing, of affordable disk storage and of networking. Compute and storage were taken up in personal computers, which at that stage were standalone, used almost entirely for gaming and word processing. At the same time, networking technologies ...
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 ...
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.
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.
5. ChatGPT-like tech will become the norm. Large language models will become a given because they lower the cost of artificial intelligence (AI) by allowing you to have multiple models over one base, giving you a speed advantage, says Krishna. “Beyond language is going to be a given, language because code can be a form of language and then ...