One Flew Over the Resource Curse

Another Great Leap Forward for Development

Technology has moved forward.

First, I'm going to fly you over the rings.

No. You represent a giant stride in evolution.

This is what ARES looks like as it flies over Mars.

Angeline wants to be a pilot so she can fly around the world and make a difference.

Quantum leaps in information technology are a major vector in the globalization of world production and trade.

You sort of leap up very quickly in your youth.

We will fly where the methane is.

You're flying through the cortex of my colleague's brain.

So took a running leap and jumped over the edge of a cliff.

We're flying through 2,000 lattice of atoms oxygen, hydrogen and zinc.

Shumann again takes the inside track as they roar around the pylon, and Shumann widens his lead.

Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

So just as a curiosity, where did you land when you flew over the Grand Canyon?

Those with a sense of history will also see the significance of Europe s nation states, which not long ago fought each other continuously, now pooling their foreign policies in order to assert them more vigorously on the global stage.

Today's world demands qualitative leaps forward in the way we engage in development cooperation.

And like airport traffic control, as they start to go past us they're called back and they're called back and back and back.

Can latecomers in the sphere of industrialization leapfrog and edge into a higher degree of industrialization through the use of IT?

The engine's roaring now, and Shumann rounds the first pylon, but he's far behind the pacesetters.

In fact, the neocortex in the human brain is evolving at an enormous speed.

Around the field pylon, Wilson's still leading, Miller close behind, and Kennedy now in third place.

Hamas activist and chemistry teacher.

But what excites me is that since I first put forward this particular idea in that form, science has advanced.

that ice sheet became very dynamic and was very easily melted.

He was running away from the police, and they cornered him at the airport and he ran into the propeller of a plane.

Maybe it's evolved from coming down from trees, and trying to control a glide.

1858 was a year of great technological advancement in the West.

This is the Great Leap Forward, when China fell down.

The process of globalization in its positive sense is promoting world economic development through the unprecedented dynamic expansion of trade and economic relations and the widest possible openness in terms of information.

Women who are active in the political arena face cultural and structural constraints.

Currently there are more than 150 active national cultural societies in Latvia.

So I was very excited about this.

One is people who underwent what is called a quantum change they felt their life and their whole values had changed.

38. The momentum of democratization and economic liberalization processes fosters attitudes strongly opposed to discrimination and market distortions caused by corruption.

In raw numbers, the one child policy s human toll has been even greater than that of Mao s Great Leap Forward, which caused a famine that killed around 36 million people from 1959 to 1961. And it exceeded that of the Cultural Revolution, in which large scale political violence likely caused as many as another ten million deaths from 1966 to 1976.

I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life.

Syrian women participate in cultural development and are successfully active in the fields of art, culture, literature and theatre.

One viewpoint holds that telecommunications and information technology could enable less developed countries to make a big leap forward by helping them boost their economy, attract foreign investment, increase exports, improve public services and expand educational opportunities.

Interventions in each of these sessions were followed by a lively debate.

The least urbanized continent, Africa, is due to experience the highest urban growth rate.

They were when I was on the force.

Forward at a gallop, ho!

The little Orion ship and what it would take to do what Orion does with chemicals you have a ship the size of the Empire State Building.