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damm! is it already over?
4. We lost a decade there someplace ^^
“Tell them what they missed” – The world outside the US?
Welcome, Uwe!
Exactly, it’s the world according to Newsweek. 😉 But it’s really quite hard to collect impressions of the social, political, economical, cultural highlights and low points on a global scale. Here are a few more I’d add, looking at the whole world, but from my perch here in Munich:
5. 2002: The Euro is introduced
6.2003: Johnny Depp creates the role of a lifetime in Jack Sparrow
7. 2006: Germany hosts the World Cup, introduces the practice of “public viewing” to the world and gains a positive self-image
8. 2006: The TED Talks go online at http://www.TED.com and boost the quality of the Internet overnight