A data infatuated world ignores
the remuneration mankind has earned in the last 200 years. The reason
being we are incapable to unite the dots for a long period i.e. 200 years.
There are few who witness these transformations through eyes of data. Thanks to these rare and less recognized people for
dipping deep into the data from various sources. They transport our ignorance vide
eye opening facts.
The few mentioned above is Max
Roser and his web publication “Our World In Data” which “Explore the ongoing
history of human civilization at the broadest level, through research and data
visualization.”
The publication carried an article
titled A history of global living conditions in 5 charts by Max Roser.
The article evidently spells out
how Poverty, Literacy, Health, Freedom and Education have under gone a tectonic
shift and we overlooked it. Instead we curse our present in all probable ways
especially by canvassing it bleak.
The article explains why we
missed it and I wish to reproduce that statement as is below whose exactness need not be questioned:
“……but I do think that the media is to blame for some part of
this. This is because the media does not tell us how the world is
changing, it tells us what in the world goes wrong.
One reason why the
media focusses on things that go wrong is that the media focusses on single
events and single events are often bad – look at the news: plane crashes,
terrorism attacks, natural disasters, election outcomes that we are not happy
with.
Positive developments on the other hand often happen very slowly and never make
the headlines in the event-obsessed media.”
To enjoy the trek of growth we
human beings have climbed please visit the site and read the article.
At a personal level visit to this
site Our World In Data is a must.
References:
Article source: The Brower –Writing
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