It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime. Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades. by Max Roser February 22, 2023 Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable, until they happen. Switching on an electric light would have been unimaginable for our medieval ancestors. In their childhood, our grandparents would have struggled to imagine a world connected by smartphones and the Internet. Similarly, it is hard for us to imagine the arrival of all those...…It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime. Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades. by Max Roser February 22, 2023 Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable, until they happen. Switching on an electric light would have been unimaginable for our medieval ancestors. In their childhood, our grandparents would have struggled to imagine a world connected by smartphones and the Internet. Similarly, it is hard for us to imagine the arrival of all those...WW…

Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailThe world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time.Discussions about the state of the world too often focus on the first statement: The news highlights what is going wrong, rarely mentioning any positive development.A pushback on this narrative takes it to the other extreme, which is equally damaging. Solely communicating the becomes unhelpful, or even repugnant, when it glosses over the problems that are real today.It’s hard to resist falling for only one of these...…Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailThe world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time.Discussions about the state of the world too often focus on the first statement: The news highlights what is going wrong, rarely mentioning any positive development.A pushback on this narrative takes it to the other extreme, which is equally damaging. Solely communicating the becomes unhelpful, or even repugnant, when it glosses over the problems that are real today.It’s hard to resist falling for only one of these...WW…