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We Live in the Future (Thinks Out Loud Episode 274) – Headlines and Show Notes

When you look around, do you feel like you’re living in a futuristic utopia? Or does it feel more like a dystopian future to you? In either case, it’s clear that we already live in the future. Whether you see a world filled with global access to instantaneous information, improved medical treatments, and declining poverty, or one filled with information overload, disparate access to healthcare, and growing income/wealth inequality, the fact remains that the future is here, now.

This week's Thinks Out Loud looks at the “state of the future” that we’re living in, positive and negative, and offers some thoughts on how you can make it more positive for you — and for the world around you.

Want to learn more? Here are the show notes for you:

Relevant Links – We Live in the Future (Thinks Out Loud Episode 274)

* Smartphone Ownership Is Growing Rapidly Around the World, but Not Always Equally | Pew Research Center

* Digital is Like Gravity (Thinks Out Loud Episode 205)

* Did We Break the Internet? Or Did the Internet Break Us? (Thinks Out Loud Episode 242)

* Facts & Figures 2019: US Cancer Death Rate has Dropped 27% in 25 Years

* (2) Peter W. Singer on Twitter: ""Once, every village had an idiot. It took the internet to bring them all together." Great @RobertLBateman quote in #LikeWar book https://t.co/mYYBg3RDpK" / Twitter

* List of countries by life expectancy – Wikipedia

* WHO | Life expectancy

* A global tipping point: Half the world is now middle class or wealthier

* The End of Millennials (Thinks Out Loud Episode 224)

* Compl...