Key Ideas

Think about the following questions as you watch the video

1. 00:50 What drivers of change were responsible for making industrialization go global in the last 100 years?
2. 02:40 How have networks changed in the last 100 years from what they were like at the time of the Industrial Revolution?
3. 04:12 How did commerce and capitalism help create a world of wage earners and city dwellers?
4. 04:37 How did the failure of communism in the twentieth century illustrate the power of competitive markets?
5. 05:03 How has global consumption of energy accelerated in the last 100 years?
6. 05:49 What are some of the indicators that suggest that the rate of innovation in the modern world is being sustained?
7. 08:01 What twentieth-century developments suggest that not all innovations are positive?
8. 10:19 What observations have led scholars like Paul Crutzen to suggest that the Earth has entered the Anthropocene epoch?