How Was the Modern World Created? (11:21)
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 00:40 What drivers of change were responsible for making industrialization go global in the last 100 years?
- 00:57 How have networks changed in the last 100 years from what they were like at the time of the Industrial Revolution?
- 04:10 How did commerce and capitalism help create a world of wage earners and city dwellers?
- 04:37 How did the failure of communism in the twentieth century illustrate the power of competitive markets?
- 05:03 How has global consumption of energy accelerated in the last 100 years?
- 05:49 What are some of the indicators that suggest that the rate of innovation in the modern world is being sustained?
- 08:01 What twentieth-century developments suggest that not all innovations are positive?
- 10:20 What observations have led scholars like Paul Crutzen to suggest that the Earth has entered the Anthropocene epoch?