Word: globalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single biggest strangeness of the American Century we're leaving is that it has been shaped, to a startling extent, by a technology that encourages us to believe that progress is a good in itself, and by a global power, the world's youngest, that is more interested in where it's going than in where it's been. His Alliance for Progress, Bill Clinton wrote recently in an editorial for the New York Times, is pledged to "elevate hope over fear and tomorrow over yesterday." Rousing words, but who's to say that tomorrow is better than yesterday, those...
...hegemony of Y2K hype. And bearing in mind that New Year's-resolution making is traditionally an act of utter futility, it's critical that you keep yours as local and personal as possible. The guilt you may incur in having failed to end world hunger or stop global warming may be unendurable. But if you find yourself on Jan. 1, 2000, surrounded by cold, guttered candles and empty champagne bottles, already unflossed, thinking about elephants and muttering the F word, you can probably deal with...
...countries make up the world--and it's still fraying. But the Internet is now the medium for imperium, as electronic democracy links even tyrannies with an increasingly World Wide Web. As chips grow cheaper, the new have-nots are the technologically under-served. What spark can pull the global plug...
Einstein, hitherto little known, became a global celebrity and was able to sell pictures of himself to journalists and send the money to a charity for war orphans. More than a hundred books were written about relativity within a year...
...both right and wrong. Interest in the flesh-and-blood Mohandas Karamchand has faded away. We revere the Mahatma while ignoring half of what he taught. His backward, romantic vision of a simple society seems woolly minded. Much of his ascetic personal philosophy has lost meaning for later generations. Global politics have little place today for his absolute pacificism or gentle tolerance...