Sublime

By one estimate, as of 2020, the world was producing 44 zettabytes of data (or 1,0007 bytes) annually—an estimated ten times the amount of data we were turning out in 2013.

Of the world population, what percentage lives in low-income countries? The majority suggested the answer was 50 percent or more. The average guess was 59 percent. The real figure is 9 percent. Only 9 percent of the world lives in low-income countries.

Les dernières décennies ont été l’ère la plus pacifique de toute l’histoire humaine. Alors que dans les premières sociétés agricoles la violence humaine causait jusqu’à 15 % des morts, elle n’en a causé que 5 % au XXe siècle ; aujourd’hui, ce pourcentage est de 1 % seulement

But the United States is not spending as much as other industrialized countries on fortifying crucial social services that help make people healthy. For instance, it spends less than 10 percent of its GDP on social services, while France, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, and Italy all spend about 20 percent of their GDP on social services (se

In fact, between 1985 and 2005, roughly as many people died of tuberculosis as in World Wars I and II combined.

Each year, more than 700,000 people around the world die from infections that antibiotics once cured but no longer do. The bacteria have developed resistance. The number of deaths is rising fast. Unless a solution is found, it is on track to hit ten million a year, or one person every three seconds.