Tech Time Travel
This scientific theory proposes that the universe began with a massive cosmic event.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Improvements in communication and transportation led to this phenomenon, where skilled workers migrated to richer countries.
What is brain drain?
After Mao's death, this country liberalized its economy and soon became the world’s second-largest economy.
What is China?
The burning of these fuels contributed heavily to air and water pollution throughout the 20th century.
What are fossil fuels?
This American cultural export influenced global fashion, entertainment, and consumer habits in the 20th century.
What is Hollywood (movies/television)?
Name two communication technologies that replaced the telegraph in the 20th century.
What are the radio and television?
This movement across many nations brought women into political leadership and non-traditional careers.
What is the women's rights movement?
India’s economy boomed in the late 20th century by focusing on these industries.
What are software development and engineering?
This era, proposed by scientists to replace the Holocene, highlights human impact on the environment.
What is the Anthropocene?
This East Asian cultural export found loyal fans in the U.S., especially in music and animation.
What are K-pop and anime?
The discovery of these types of drugs, like penicillin, dramatically improved human life expectancy.
What are antibiotics?
In developed countries, the use of this medical advancement allowed women to control family size and pursue education and careers.
What is birth control?
These five Asian economies (Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) rose to challenge Western economic dominance.
What are the Asian Tigers?
Name one major environmental problem caused by factory emissions and transportation.
What is airborne pollution or climate change?
Cultural exchanges in the globalized era became more of this rather than a one-way transfer.
What is a two-way street?
This type of energy, once feared for its destructive potential, became a major energy source.
What is nuclear power?
The world’s fastest population growth rates since 1900 occurred mostly in these types of countries.
What are developing countries?
Post-World War II, this region of the world saw heavy economic exploitation by wealthier nations for raw materials.
What are less developed regions (or the Global South)?
Technological advances like jet travel drastically reduced this, previously measured in months or years.
What is travel time across the globe?
Advances in this technology enabled even remote parts of the world to participate in global cultural exchanges.
What are the internet and cellular technology?
These crops, developed during the Green Revolution, helped boost food supplies but decreased biodiversity.
What are genetically modified crops?
This key social change for women in the 20th and 21st centuries was often linked to increased educational opportunities.
What is socioeconomic mobility?
The rise of manufacturing economies in Asia most directly challenged the previous economic dominance of which region?
What is the West (especially the United States and Europe)?
The Space Age represented humanity’s ability to overcome this major environmental limitation.
What is Earth’s terrestrial boundary?
The rapid spread of this trend reflects globalization’s influence on consumer habits.
What is consumer culture?