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Nov 18, 2020 · Technology has changed major sectors over the past 20 years, including media, climate action and healthcare. The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary, gives us insight how emerging tech leaders have influenced and responded to these changes.
- Madeleine Hillyer
The World Economic Forum is an independent international...
- Madeleine Hillyer
Feb 27, 2023 · New vaccines, progress in clean, low-carbon energy, better cancer treatments – a range of future innovations could very much improve our living conditions and the environment around us. But, as I argue in a series of articles, there is one technology that could even more profoundly change our world: artificial intelligence (AI).
- Max Roser
Sep 1, 2021 · Results from a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted April 12-18, 2021, reveal the extent to which people’s use of the internet has changed, their views about how helpful technology has been for them and the struggles some have faced.
- Sara Atske
- Sara Atske
- 58% of adults say the internet has been essential during the pandemic, and for some groups, its importance grew over the past year. The share of Americans who describe the internet as essential for them during the pandemic has risen slightly over the past year.
- 81% of Americans have used video calling and conferencing during the pandemic. As Americans increasingly lived their lives from home, video calling and conferencing platforms became a venue for everything from celebrating holidays with family and friends to conducting remote meetings or visiting doctors.
- In their own words, Americans describe how they have used technology or the internet in new or different ways during the pandemic. As the severity of the pandemic grew, some Americans were faced with performing everything from their social interactions to their work or schooling online.
- 68% of Americans say digital interactions have been useful – but not a replacement for in-person connection. In late March 2020, as stay-at home orders upended American life, a Center survey asked U.S. adults to speculate on whether digital interactions – that is, everyday interactions that might have to be done online or by telephone because of recommended limits on social contact during the coronavirus outbreak – would be suitable replacement for in-person contact.
- Media and Media Consumption
- Climate Change and Green Tech
- Biotech and Healthcare
The past 20 years have greatly shaped how and where we consume media. In the early 2000s, many tech firms were still focused on expanding communication for work through advanced bandwidth for video streaming and other media consumption that is common today. Others followed the path of expanding media options beyond traditional outlets. Early Tech P...
Many scientists today are looking to technology to lead us towards a carbon-neutral world. Though renewed attention is being given to climate change today, these efforts to find a solution through technology is not new. In 2001, green tech offered a new investment opportunity for tech investors after the crash, leading to a boom of investing in ren...
The early 2000s also saw the culmination of a biotech boomthat had started in the mid-1990s. Many firms focused on advancing biotechnologies through enhanced tech research. An early Technology Pioneer,Actelion Pharmaceuticalswas one of these companies. Actelion’s tech researched the single layer of cells separating every blood vessel from the blood...
Nov 17, 2017 · Over the last few decades, the rapid rise of digital technology has fundamentally changed the U.S. economy and the world of work. These are five takeaways from a new report explores on the...
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Dec 24, 2019 · From smartphones to LBGTQ rights, here are some of the most memorable ways in which the world has changed over the past 10 years.
