In his 2006 TED lecture, Professor of International Health, Hans Rosling, shows that, contrary to rumours, the end is not yet nigh. Complex global trends - in life expectancy, child mortality and poverty – are revealed in ways that may surprise. See the world changing. Marxists please take note.
Professor Rosling’s follow-up lecture, filmed in March 2007, can be viewed here. More here and at TEDblog.
(H/T, Vitruvius.)
Thanks for the link to the 2007 video, David. I had not previously seen it. I've been poking around a bit further, and am now studying Prof. Rosling et al's http://www.gapminder.org/ web site. This stuff really is quite interesting.
Posted by: Vitruvius | August 06, 2007 at 05:06
Oh my, check this out David. The live interactive web-based software that Prof. Rosling has been talking about is available here:
http://tools.google.com/gapminder/
This thing is amazing. I've been exploring it for hours. The on-line help is available here (and from the upper-left corner of the tool):
http://www.gapminder.org/gapminderworld/help/gapminder_world_help.htm
Posted by: Vitruvius | August 06, 2007 at 06:03
Did the South African government change in 1991?
Posted by: AntiCitizenOne | August 06, 2007 at 12:46
Most of sub-Saharan Africa got hammered by disease starting in the late 1980's, as shown by this Gapminder animation I just made:
http://tinyurl.com/2a7yf3
Posted by: Vitruvius | August 06, 2007 at 20:34
Wow! Thanks for posting the link Vitruvius (and David for posting the video, of course). It is one of the most fascinating sites I've seen on this internet thingy.
Posted by: Brendan_2 | August 07, 2007 at 15:01