Hans Rosling was a professor at Sweden's Karolinska Institute. I have written about him before. He, like Ben Wattenburg and some other statistically minded people have been interested in getting a picture of what is going on that is accurate. You don't have to go back too far in time to get to a place where the king didn't really know how many people were in his kingdom, how many people were sick and other numbers that a government generally needs.
Prof. Rosling died about a year ago but he and his son and his daughter have some TED talks and some YouTube videos that are worth seeing. Rosling shows that many people aged 40 or
Here is a Google link to various Hans Rosling resources:
Here is a link to the most recent TED talk by Anna Rosling Ronnlund:
https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income
Her talk is about how all the humans live. Take a look. You can see that we are becoming unified.
Prof. Rosling died about a year ago but he and his son and his daughter have some TED talks and some YouTube videos that are worth seeing. Rosling shows that many people aged 40 or
more
have ideas about what is going on in the world that are out of date. Talks by him and his grown children aim at showing what the true situation is for the whole planet. Here is a Google link to various Hans Rosling resources:
Here is a link to the most recent TED talk by Anna Rosling Ronnlund:
https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income
Her talk is about how all the humans live. Take a look. You can see that we are becoming unified.
