2021 YEAR IN REVIEW PLUS PREVIOUS ANNUAL REIVEWS BACK TO 2010, Millennium Project Jerome Glenn. 밀레니엄프로젝트 한국지부 유엔미래포럼, 지난 10년간의 거대한 변화 물결을 정리하여 내 놓는다. 2010년까지 매년 가장 큰 세상의 변화, 큰 기술들을 망라한다.
2021 YEAR IN REVIEW PLUS PREVIOUS ANNUAL REIVEWS BACK TO 2010, Millennium Project Jerome Glenn. 밀레니엄프로젝트 한국지부 유엔미래포럼, 지난 10년간의 거대한 변화 물결을 정리하여 내 놓는다. 2010년까지 매년 가장 큰 세상의 변화, 큰 기술들을 망라한다.
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2021 YEAR IN REVIEW
PLUS PREVIOUS ANNUAL REIVEWS BACK TO 2010
This review is not listed in any priority. It is my subjective review as are the other annual reviews that follow back to 2010. Comments welcome to: Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org cc: jglenn@igc.org
The Pandemic cost the global economy US$90 trillion, and continues to mutate with new variants becoming the majority of infections.
Over 9 billion Covid vaccine shots have been given in 184 countries by year end.
Anti-Covid pills approved (Pfizer's Paxlovid and Merck's Molnupiravir).
Joe Biden becomes US President, creates massive US vaccination and economic recovery program, commits $4 billion to GAVI for international vaccines, other overseas economic recovery, and rejoins the Paris Climate Accords.
Trump extremists invade the US Capitol fail to stop the election certification.
UN Secretary-General releases “Our Common Agenda” as the most future-oriented UN reform document ever produced by the UN SG’s Office.
Historic droughts, fires, floods cost $170 billion $20 billion more than last year.
COP26 US-China joint statement, reduce methane 30% by 2030 which focuses on agriculture, keep to 1.5°C goal but current country pledges will not make it.
Atmospheric CO2 reached 411 ppm in May 2019 (in May 1958 in was 317.5)
Global Warming declared emergency by 11,000 scientists in BioScience
Greta Thunberg of Sweden triggers increased attention to global warming
China first to land on the dark side of the Moon.
Islamic State (ISIL) lost its land; Russia/Turkey take land left by the US
Public protests in Algeria, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kashmir (Internet Blackout by India Lebanon. London, Montenegro, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe
US-China trade war
President Trump Impeached
Brussels Bans 5G due to insufficient health/biological impact studies
Based on program upgrades, four additional binary black hole mergers detected from data recorded in 2015, 2016, and 2017 – bringing the total to 10 black hole mergers and one binary neutron-star merger
2017 Year in Review (not listed in any priority)
Most babies born this year are likely to see the year 2100
Me Too Movement knocks out stars in politics, sports, and the media, and spreads around the world exposing male abuse of women
First successful human embryo genetically edited
China announced quantum entanglement between satellite and ground station
Putin denies thousands of Russian-sourced bots targeted at specific US voter-groups and regions via Twitter and Facebook accounts with thousands of hate-Hillary and pro-Trump messages reaching over 100 million US voters
Donald Trump became US President with 3 million fewer votes than Hilary
President Trump announced withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and UNESCO, while recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
Mugabe ousted in Zimbabwe, Zuma ousted in South Africa, Yahya Jammeh ousted in Gambia
Venezuela accelerates its downward spiral
Cultural genocide, mass killings, rapes of Rohingya by Myanmar Army
2017 likely be the hottest year on record in the absence of the El Niño; July 2017 had tied July and August 2016 as the hottest month on record
SwissRe estimated global warming assisted natural disasters during 2017 cost insurance industry about US$100 billion (Caribbean hurricanes cost $290 billion)
Yemen : 1 million got Cholera; 8 million near starvation; water nearly gone
EU fines Google $2.7 Billion for anti-trust activities
Bitcoin hits $19,500 before retreating; NY’s Dow hits record 24,792
SpaceX relaunched and re-landing a used Falcon 9 rocket booster saving $18 million per launch.
Xi Jinping sets 5-year agenda at China’s 19th Party Congress China including the Belt and Road massive infrastructure program and AI leadership by 2030
North Korea has 2,000 full-time hackers into financial systems (BBC)
First observation of gravitational waves from collision of two neutron stars.
North Korea tests hydrogen bomb and ICBM capable of reaching the USA
Quantum entanglement with 10 qubits on a superconducting circuit achieved
Defeat of ISIS/ISIL/IS control of Mosul most of the lands it had controlled
Australia became the 25th country to legalize same-sex marriage
Narrow AI proliferates from medical diagnosis to home assistants; even an AI robot opened a conference in South Korea and given citizenship in Saudi Arabia
Emmanuel Macron provides a new face for European leadership
2016 Year in Review (not listed in any priority)
Paris Agreement on Climate Change entered into force
Hottest year on record (again) and highest CO2 ppm in recorded history
Rapid progress in genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9
Syrian conflict continues to get worse
ISIL loses most of its territory
Colombian Government and FARC end longest bar in Latin America
IAEA verifies Iran met Nuclear Framework Agreement goals
Google’s AlphaGo Beat Korean Go champion
AI’s rapid proliferation from Google’s Translate to Amazon ‘s Echo
Brexit
First vertical return landing of space rocket
Fidel Castro and John Glenn die
Microsoft’s HoloLens
Failed Military Coup in Turkey
OECD adds Latvia as 35th Member
Zika Virus spreads across the Americas
Summer Olympics in Rio Janeiro, Brazil
North Korea conducts 5th Nuclear Test, claims a hydrogen bomb test
Bob Dylan gets Nobel Prize for Literature
Putin orders cyber-attacks, fake news, infowar against Hillary Clinton’s election
Hillary Clinton wins USA vote; Donald Trump wins electoral college
ICC sentences Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić to 40 years
214,000 offshore companies’ 11.5 million documents exposed in Panama
NASA’s Juno went into Jupiter’s orbit on July 4th
US and Russia stay in the International Space Station for record 340 days
Baby born in Mexico with DNA from 3 parents (mitochondrial transfer)
Ecuador and Italy get major Earthquakes
70 year old Indian women gave birth to baby
20th Anniversary of The Millennium Project (smile).
2015Year in Review (not listed in any priority)
UN Climate Change Agreement in Paris
Hottest year on record
Gene editing made much easier via CRISPR, could alter human evolution by germ-line engieering
US-China joint global warming statement on new goals
Pope’s Encyclical Letter on global warming
Solar Impluse – solar electric airplane circumnavigates the globe
US-Cuba opens diplomatic relations
US Supreme Court ruling same-sex marriages legal
Global Je suis Charlie demonstrations against ISIL attacks in Paris
Russian plane shot down over Egypt
Nuclear Framework Agreement with Iran
3D printing and drones became mainstream
China expands Island construction in South China Sea
Environmental movement is back: Keystone XL Pipeline & Climate Agreement
Carteret Islands environmental (sea-level) refugees (Papua New Guinea)
Most UN Millennium Development Goals reached for 2015; Sustainable Development Goals set 2030
70th Anniversary of the United Nations
Fly-by of Pluto video transmission received
Vertical landing of two kinds of reusable rocket sections.
Price of oil falls dramatically
Costs of security for public spaces and cyberspace increase dramatically
2014 Year in Review (not listed in any priority)
US-China joint cooperation on reducing greenhouse gases
Record growth in US and China’s stock markets
127 billionaires have pledged to give half their wealth to philanthropic causes
2014 expected to be the hottest year in recorded history
CO2 emissions estimated to be 2.3% more than in 2013.
Hybrid synthetic DNA replicated and grew (A third base pare (d5SICS and dNaM) added to natural E.coli DNA two base pairs (A-T & C-G)
India’s spacecraft reached Mars; European‘s spacecraft landed on a comet
Antares rocket, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic spacecrafts crash/blowup
Syrian civil war continues over 2 million refugees
Syrian chemical weapons surrendered
ISIS, then ISIL, then IS beheadings; new US and others‘ airstrikes in Iraq/Syria
One Malaysian Airplane disappears, another shot down over the Ukraine
Russia takes Crimea and invades Ukraine (said with military volunteers)
Falling oil prices, falling Ruble, and increasing inflation in Russia
Mt Gox largest Bitcoin exchange failure
Ebola kills 7,000 across West Africa (many more die of Malaria each year)
3D Printer on the International Space Station prints a socket wrench
Private drones and computer rist watches begin to proliferate
Argentine court gave Orangutan personhood rights for bodily autonomy.
Pope Francis criticizes Vatican management for pathology of power
First successful use of Simon’s algorithm on D-wave quantum computing
Brain to brain computer mediated communications demonstrated
A computer program Board of Directors Member for Deep Knowledge Ventures
Panama and Suez Canals massive expansions
Over half of all animals gone in less than 50 years (Living Planet Index)
Malala Yousafzai shares Nobel Prize for Peace
US-Cuba diplomatic relations
New Government in Iraq
US combat troops leave Afghanistan
2013 Year in Review
New Pope sets a new tone for the 1.2 billion Roman Catholics
Global Slavery Index estimates there are about 30 million slaves in 2013.
Nearly 40% of humanity uses the Internet
Malala Yousafzai survives Taliban assassination and becomes a new world force
Nelson Mandela’s passing reminds the world of greatness
The largest petition to recall a government in history: 22 million sign petition in Egyptian for Morsi’s resignation
Egyptian military crackdown on the Moslem Brotherhood
China lands a robot rover on the Moon, India launches spacecraft to Mars
Elon Musk continues private sector space program SpaceX Falcon 9 launching a geostationery satellite at 1/3 the cost
Syrian Civil War worsens while it agreed to disarm chemical weapons
Hassan Rouhani opens Iran to the West and signs nuclear processing agreement
No. Korean conducts 3rd underground nuclear bomb test and executes Pres’s uncle
China tensions with Japan & neighbors increase; US & China warships monitor
US Affordable Health Care Website problems
CO2 passes 400 parts per million in the atmosphere; 2013 7th hottest year recorded
Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines with the most powerful tropical storm to make landfall on record with gusts reaching 235 mph.
Shanghai and California initiate cap and trade systems
First hamburger publically cooked and tested from pure meat tissue grown without growing a cow
UN adopts the Arms Trade Treaty of conventional weapons
Edward Snowden release of US intelligence wiretapping heads of state.
Largest meteor in a century hits Russian city of Chelyabinsk
USA makes recreational use of marijuana legal in Colorado and Washington and Uruguay becomes the first country to make it legal to produce and sale marajuana
US Government shutdow for 16 days; Tea Party begins to lose power in the US
Human adult cell nuclei inserted in egg cells with previous nuclei removed that produced new embryonic stem cells clonded for new stem cell line.
Higgs particle confirmed that gives rise to matter
Google Glass demonstrated
President Obama annouces Human Brain Initiative
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report
The were 628 recorded cyber-attacks over a 24 hour period on July 24, 2013 with majority targeting the USA
2012 Year in Review
Humanity continues to be succeeding /winning more than it is losing, according to the 28 variables in the State of the Future Index
Higgs-like Particle discovered that may explain how matter is created
Skydive from the edge of space (24 miles) going faster than sound (Mach 1.24)
Moslem Brotherhood takes over the leadership of Egypt
Egypt’s Morsi goes from world hero (cease fire agreement) to world pariah dictator within 24 hours
China and its ocean neighbors contest boundaries increasing tensions wit`h and among Japan, Philippians, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei
North Korea successfully launches intercontinental missile for orbital satellite
Wikipedia and others went dark to successfully block the US Congress’s SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).
Big Data becomes popular subject for decisionmakers to explore how to use
China’s third human space launch carring the first Chinese woman into space rendezvoused with China’s Space Lab
SpaceX’s Dragon is the first successful private sector station re-supply vehicle
Mars Landing of Curiosity Robot
China proposes space power collaboration with India
Driverless cars by Google are legal in US (California, Florida, and Nevada)
President Obama’s endorsement of Gay Marriage
London Olympics – nurtures spirit of world peace
Facebook’s IPO financial loss
Pope’s assistant exposes some of the Vatican’s inner political corruption.
Severe political stalemate in Washington, D.C., US continues
More than 100 journalists have been killed so far this year, making 2012 the deadliest year for media since UNESCO began keeping records on the issue
Syria’s civil war accellorates.
Likely 2012 will be the hottest year in US recorded history
Climate continues to change: USA is 60% in drought, super hurricane Sandy, heavy flooding in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore, UK
Euro financial crisis continues with riots especially in Greece and Spain
2011 Year in Review
World grew to 7 billion people
Arab Spring/Awakening
Occupy Movements initially on Wall Street
Other protests took to the streets in Greece, Russia, China, Spain, others
Japan Disasters
Tenth Anniversary of 911 Terrorist Attacks
Bin Laden Killed
US pulled out of Iraq
Steve Jobs Died
Tablet computers
Space Shuttle retired
China produced more cars that the US or Japan
Severe political stalemate in Washington, D.C., US
Robot 25% of Japan over 65 years old
Robonaut 2 humanoid robot (without legs) on International Space Station
IBM Watson computer beats human Jeopardy champions
Super High Vision 7,680 by 4,320 parcels created by Sharp is 16 times HD resolution
Brittan’s Royal Wedding
Unprecedented volume of Methane found bubbling up from shallow Arctic sea floor
Large Hadron Collider discovered a particle composed of a quark and anti-quark
Programmable quantum photonic chip
26 Year old in charge of nuclear weapons in North Korea
More Internet users in China than the entire population of the USA
2010 year in review
2010 was the warmest year the earth has yet recorded.
China passed Japan in 2010 to become the world's second-largest economy behind the United States, and has the second largest number of billionaires in the world.
BP Gulf Oil catastrophe
Wikileaks
Philippines may pass India this year as the largest call center than India – Financial Times.
Airports across Europe closed for a week by Volcano ash (Eyjafjallajökull) causing chaos for millions.
North Korea’s sinking a South Korean ship and shelling one of its islands.