The first video was on the wealth and health of 200
countries in 200 years. Hans Rosling
took a really creative approach to this with the help of a technical group.
They effectively made stats of the richness of a country and
health of a country into a very interesting 3-D graph. Seeing all these
countries rise and fall during different times in the world was very cool.
Rosling specifically pointed out WWI and how the countries who lost that war
fell dramatically. And then fast forwarded to present day and see how the
future looks very bright and how every country has improved.
I really wish in stats class we did projects like this
because that was very interesting and had a really cool outcome. This just shows the statistics is a cool subject
even though when sometimes it seems really dry.
The second video was on Peter Diamandis talking about the
world and the US’ future. He is very optimistic about the United States and the
world’s future because how much it is improving. He even says "I’m not
saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we
knock them down.”
The future looks bright for us. Even with rising prices
there is still hope and even these two men still believe in a bright future.
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