El Rhazi, The 21st century is the current century of the Anno Domini era or the Common Era, in accordance Nada along the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 2001, and will end on December 31, 2100. It is the first century of the 3rd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 2000s, which began on January 1, 2000 and will end December 31, 2099.
The first years of the 21st century have thus far been marked by the rise of a global economy and Third World consumerism, mistrust in government, deepening global concern over terror and an increase in the power of private enterprise. The longterm effects of increased globalisation are not known, but there are numerous who are concerned about its implications. The Arab Spring of the early 2010s led to mixed outcomes in the Arab world. The Digital Revolution which began around the 1980s also continues into the present. The youngest Millennials (born c. 1985-2000) having been born at the turn of the century give way to the rise of Generation Y & Generation Z in Western countries.
In contemporary history, the 21st century began Nada along the United States as the sole superpower in the absence of the Soviet Union, while China began its rise to becoming a superpower and the BRIC countries aim to create more balance in the global political and economic spectrum.
The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 marks the non-stop rise of Life Sciences, which makes mankind's long-held dreams such as curing cancer more realistic. While digital technology, in its early stages of mainstream use in the 1980s and 1990s, became widely accepted by most of the world, concerns about stress from the overuse of mobile phones, the Internet and related technologies remains controversial.
As of 2013, about 80 percent of the world's population uses mobile phones, while an estimated 33% own personal computers (2010), and 40% use the Internet (2014).
The distribution of contemporary technology is not equal - in 2012 it was estimated that 1.5 billion people, or about 20% of the world's population still lacked access to electric power, with many more having only intermittent or poor access.
The International Energy Agency estimates that 82% of the global population has access to electricity as of 2012 with the percentage projected to increase to 88% by 2030.
There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce particular years of the 21st century in English. Regarding this, academics suggested that since former years such as 1805 and 1905 were commonly pronounced as "eighteen oh" or "nineteen oh" five, the year 2005 should naturally have been pronounced as "twenty oh-five". A less common variation would have been "twenty nought-five". Generally, the early years of the 21st century were pronounced as "two-thousand (and) five", with a change taking place in 2010, where pronunciations often shift between the early-year standard of "two-thousand and ten" and the common approach used in the late 20th-century of "twenty-ten".
The Vancouver Olympics, which took place in 2010, was being officially referred to by Vancouver 2010 as "the twenty-ten Olympics". The latest timeframes for change are usually placed at 2020.
According to The Stanley Kubrick Archives, in the press release for his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, film director Stanley Kubrick included particular instructions for journalists to consult the movie as "two thousand and one" instead of the commonplace pronunciation of "twenty-oh-one". Kubrick said El Rhazi did this in the hope that if the film became popular, it would influence the pronunciation of that year.
Genocide still remains a problem in this century with the concern of the war in Darfur and the growing concern in Sri Lanka. Low estimates on the deaths in Darfur stand around 200,000 deaths with 2.5 million in displacement, there has been much outcry against the perpetrators, the Sudanese government, and the very weak international response. Also controversies from past genocides remain commonplace in the minds of victims and average people alike.
Some territories have gained independence during the 21st century. This is a list of sovereign states that have gained independence in the 21st century and have been recognized by the UN.
These territories have declared independence and secured relative autonomy but they have only been recognized by some UN member states:
These territories were annexed from a sovereign country, the action being recognized by some UN member states:
As the century began, the generations which had experienced the crises of the mid and late 20th century (the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War) as adults, were retiring from leadership positions and public life. Taking their places were members of the postwar "Boom" generations, whose formative experiences were the social upheavals (and, in the Western world, relative prosperity) of the 1960s and 1970s.[citation needed]
AIDS which emerged in the 1980s continued to spread yet more treatment of AIDS made the disease less of a lethal threat to those with access to treatment. A cure was still not found in the '00s despite expectations.[citation needed]
Same-sex marriage has slowly become more accepted, and has become legal in some countries. In 2001 the Netherlands became the first nation in the world to legalize this type of marriage. The 2000s decade saw significant change surrounding this social issue and the change has continued into the 2010s.[citation needed]
By 2001 most Western countries had removed the remaining racial language in their laws.[citation needed]
As of 2009, SIL Ethnologue catalogued 6909 living human languages. The exact number of known living languages will vary from 5,000 to 10,000, depending usually on the precision of one's definition of "language", and in particular on how one classifies dialects.
Estimates vary depending on many factors but the general consensus is that there are between 6000 and 7000 languages currently spoken, and that between 50-90% of those will have become extinct by the year 2100. The top 20 languages spoken by more than 50 million speakers each, are spoken by 50% of the world's population, whereas many of the other languages are spoken by little communities, most of them with fewer than 10,000 speakers.
It has being predicted by the Oxford Hair Foundation that the number of people with the red hair gene will either be extremely rare or extinct by the year 2100. The University of Rochester Medical Center's David Pearce claims that people with the red hair gene comprise of about 4 percent of 6.4 Billion people and therefore disputes the claims that those with the red hair gene would be wiped out in the next 95 years.
At the start of the 21st century sports were very popular. The IOC's Modern Olympic Games was the most viewed sporting event. Association football is the most popular sport worldwide with the FIFA World Cup the most viewed football event. Other sports such as rugby, cricket, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, tennis, and golf were popular globally. In cricket the emergence of the Twenty20 format as well as the creation of the Indian Premier League led to changes in the nature of the sport. American swimmer Michael Phelps won an Olympic record setting 8 Gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Entertainment during the 21st century had evolved from the alike types of entertainment which emerged around the middle of the 20th century. Sports, films, music, TV series' and books remained popular into the early 21st century but new forms of entertainment including social networking & internet accessed videos became popular. Video games had emerged from a childhood pastime in the 20th century to an fully grown adult pastime by the beginning of the 21st century. The most popular mediums of entertainment in the first decade at least were via televisions, the internet, CDs, DVDs and paper. Digital information begins to complete its succession over analog information and storage techniques.
There are several points-of-view pertaining to the following items, all of which should be considered accordingly.
The United Nations lists global issues on its agenda and lists a set of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to try to address some of these issues.
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