Generation Y has grown up in the safest environment in human history.
We are the oldest constitutional democracy in the world but we must never forget in the context of human history just how quickly we have come to where we are today.
But as Brin points out, real Spartans were slavemongers of the worst sort, living in one of the most stratified societies in human history.
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This is a view backed by Prof Chris Stringer, who was also involved in the research and is an expert in human origins at the Natural History Museum in London.
According to Triumph of the City, more than half of the population in 2011 will be urban, for the first time in human history.
The problem of cyber arms control is akin to the greatest arms control failure of the Cold War, which still persists: the mass distribution of the most produced firearm in human history, the Kalashnikov AK-47.
The Medieval period actually saw many advances in technology, several of which were amongst the most significant in human history.
For if you're going to accidentally have your product resemble a famous person, somehow, by a strange law of comedy that can't be explained, the absolute worst human being in the history of the world is far more amusing than, say, Tom Hanks.
In the course of human history, the American story is great and unique, one filled with men and women of courage, character, and compassion.
Never in the course of human history have we had a greater opportunity to make our people healthier and wiser, to protect our planet from decay and abuse, to reap the benefits of free markets without abandoning the social contract and its concern for the common good.
And it's striking that the most media-observed figure in human history, the Princess of Wales, chose for her most daring and decisive media act a long, formal interview with Panorama, which 20 million people watched.
Historians and social scientists have found quite a lot to say about why faith thrives in some places and periods but not in others why, for the first time in human history, there are now hundreds of millions of unbelievers, and why religion is little more than vestigial in countries like Denmark and Sweden.
In its first six months of operation on the station, AMS had accumulated more data on charged cosmic rays than had been previously collected in the history of human physics studies.
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For the first time in human history, we can shop for life partners the same way that we shop for anything else.
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During the day, we took classes, learning about acupressure points in the human body, and also the company history, corporate culture, and team building.
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Rather, we should learn from Gen Y, arguably the most communicatively adept generation in human history, and embrace the huge strides in collaboration brought forth by these new technologies.
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They called it the Industrial Revolution because for the first time in all of human history, economic growth started at a rate where you could see the difference in living standards at the end of a human lifespan relative to the beginning of a human lifespan.
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This is not the first time in human history that food shortages looked like they would be the motor of violent geopolitical change.
"Those episodes proved to be the single most important stimulus for the major transformations in human history, " said Weiss, who digs through the traces of vanished empires for evidence of these climatic events.
Finding the balance between biodiversity conservation, and human dietary need may well constitute the toughest challenge any generation in human history has had to confront, in a context of 7 billion hungry people.
As I explained in this Forbes piece, this is the most innovative decade in human history.
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And this leads to a clashing, great power competitions of the kind that we've seen in the 19th century and in the 18th century and often throughout human history.
Indeed, the smartphone, which the iPhone was the first decent implementation of, looks like becoming the fastest adopted technology ever in the history of the entire human species so far.
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Retirement is a relatively new concept in the overall history of human beings.
Capitalism and technology have lifted more people out of abject poverty than anything else in the history of human civilization.
In the history of human civilization, has there ever been a society to offer so much uninterrupted head space to so many?
Today marks an important milestone in the history of human exploration.
As McGill University economist Reuven Brenner pointed out so brilliantly in his essential book History: The Human Gamble, it is gaps in wealth that drive creativity among the citizenry.
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Backers of Professor Islam's filter hope that the publicity that it receives at the Arsenic conference in San Diego will help raise funds to end arsenic contamination in Bangladesh, described by the World Health Organization as the largest mass poisoning in human history.
In terms of increasing the wages of the common man this is the best performance anywhere in human history.
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