Friday, December 3, 2010

What I Call Progress

Hans Rosling, the creator of "Gapminder", has given us another superb stats-based presentation. This time, Mr. Rosling shows us how life expectancy and income per person have improved steadily, albeit unevenly, across the entire world in the last 200 years. The presentation is a wonderful reminder that we, the people of the 21st century, are an extremely lucky lot. What's more, Rosling's presentation is a hopeful stand against gloomy forecasts that see only misery ahead for the human race. Quite the opposite, if the last 200 years of history tell us something is that human ingenuity will give us a bright future.  

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