Beautiful visualisation

[oddlots]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSR...layer_embedded

... and a positive perspective on our world.

[ThePythonicCow]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSR...layer_embedded

Yes, it is good. See also my earlier thread on this same video at How Capitalism Changed The World In 200 Years.

[Starving Steve]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

Here is what I see:

Cheap fossil fuels >>>energy consumption >>> wealth & health >>> science replaces faith >>> fertility-rate drop >>> a better & longer life >>> a convergent & prosperous world >>> world peace & gold standard returns >>> bio-tech and human replacement-parts >>> the whole world runs on atomic power.

In the Middle East, religious zealots of all faiths would be arrested and placed into labour camps and/or mental hospitals.

[jk]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

factor in reduced infant mortality [mostly] and antibiotics and you explain most of the progress in longevity.

[Prazak]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

That should be set to the tune of Donald Fagan's IGY ("What a beautiful world this will be. What a glorious time to be free."): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqUU-GCuppo

[Sharky]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

factor in reduced infant mortality [mostly] and antibiotics and you explain most of the progress in longevity.

Eliminating starvation through the industrialization of food production also played a big role. There has never been a famine in a capitalist country.

[LargoWinch]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSR...layer_embedded

... and a positive perspective on our world.

That was cool oddlots.

Not related to Economics, but quite interesting nonetheless is the following visualization:

Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"

[c1ue]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

Eliminating starvation through the industrialization of food production also played a big role. There has never been a famine in a capitalist country.

Really?

I suppose Germany in 1946 was socialist, communist, or monarchist?

Famines are historically a function of poverty compounded by politics.

Simply conflating that capitalism prevents famine is correlation (and incomplete to boot) without causation.

[Prazak]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

Yeah, kind of a corollary of Friedman's facile argument that no two countries with a McDonalds has ever attacked each other by force of arms.

Hard to say what the German war economy was. Kind of an atypcal example. Maybe Ireland 1845 is a better example?

[oddlots]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

Ooops. Hat tip to PC. (I knew I'd seen it somewhere.)

[oddlots]

Re: Beautiful visualisation

That's sweet. (Odd choice of words. Weekend with son.)

Love info-porn (as Ritholtz calls it.)

FWIW creator of the original above is the creator of this site:

http://www.gapminder.org/

Lot's of imaginative ways to express data.