BADM 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Data Warehouse, Mobile Computing, Cyberwarfare
3 Apr 2017
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Middle class: people want better education and healthcare. Population: 2 billion people living on or less a day, global poverty hundreds of millions fewer of people living in absolute poverty than 20 years ago. 1 child dies every 4 seconds: trend #1 full planet empty plates too many people, not enough food food production would have to go up by 70% by 2050 vertical farming farming inside of city buildings. Water will replace oil as a future cause of war between nations: trend #2. World will be more crowded with older people. 1 in 4 people in china will be over the age of 60 in 20 years. Accessing global risk: cyber security, black swan events. Metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is inappropriately rationalized after the fact: global forces. Emerging-market countries contribute more growth than the developed ones.
