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1. The Internet
2. Google and Wikipedia
3. Extreme poverty halved
4. Facebook, Twitter and Skype
5. YouTube
6. Primary school education up to 90% worldwide.
7. Huge drop in Child Death
8. Access to Water and Sanitation - 2 billion more people
9. Polio eradication (nearly there)
10. Approaching gender parity in education
11. Literacy rates on the rise
12. The End of Apartheid in South Africa
13. The inspiration of Nelson Mandela
14. Tuberculosis: more than 20 million deaths averted in ~15 years.
15. Malaria: more than one million deaths averted in 10 years.
16. Aung San Suu Kyi inspiring generations of Burmese and those worldwide
17. 35% decrease in hunger in the developing regions
18. Malala Yousafzai
19. Measles vaccination rates, and deaths avoided
20. OK Computer by Radiohead
21. Pixar
22. Shakespeare translated into dozens of languages
23. Same-sex marriage in (almost) every continent
24. First African-American U.S. President
25. The Arab Spring
26. MP3 players
27. Maternal deaths - nearly 50% drop from 1990 to 2010
28. Growth of Democracy around the world
29. HIV (Part 1): New and Improved Treatments, and Life Expectancy
30. HIV (Part 2): A vaccine?
31. Contraception quality, diversity and use
32. Fertility rate down to just 2.5
33. Mars exploration
34. Diversity of media
35. Satire
36. Iran entering into a peaceful, cooperative era
37. Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea (Bradley) Manning
38. Hans Rosling and the Gapminder Foundation
39. Female representation
40. Science on TV
41. Slum dwelling rates falling
42. Debt servicing has dropped
43. A golden era for Television
44. Mental health awareness
45. The rise of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
46. 3D Printing
47. Harry Potter
48. Action on Climate Change
49. The Global Economy
50. Mobile/Cell phones
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