A Short History of the 20th Century
If we base our perception of the 20th century with the video that I show above, “A Short History of the 20th Century”, we can clearly see, and understand, that it was period of transition, marked with huge developments- at least for it’s time- in what concerns, for example, the media with the appearance of the television, and extraordinary changes, mainly political.
The globalization started many years before, when we started developing the transport communication and the trade at an international level. But, in my opinion, we only got a real taste of it in the 20th century, and I say this, believing that the technological advances and the media innovations are the major boosters of this phenomenon.
It was the cinema (Ex: Charlie Chaplin movies to the E.T), it was the television EX: Mickey Mouse- TV show, live sport events- Olympics) - at first, black and white, after, with beautiful bright colors-, it was the better airplanes, the World Wars, Spatial Explorations- Laika, the first dog on the space(Russians accomplishment), the landing on the moon(Americans accomplishment), the McDonalds-one of the many multinationals that only emerged in this century, the music- only in this century we had major superstars, From Elvis Presley to Michael- and the expansion of Democracy.
We can conclude, from the video, from the things we know, that it wasn’t all pretty, all music, all development, but it also was lots of suffering and people will never forget the wars, the deaths and all the drama that came from it, but without it we, probably, wouldn’t be where we are now, more safety, more freedom, more time, more commodities, more DEMOCRACY!
The globalization started many years before, when we started developing the transport communication and the trade at an international level. But, in my opinion, we only got a real taste of it in the 20th century, and I say this, believing that the technological advances and the media innovations are the major boosters of this phenomenon.
It was the cinema (Ex: Charlie Chaplin movies to the E.T), it was the television EX: Mickey Mouse- TV show, live sport events- Olympics) - at first, black and white, after, with beautiful bright colors-, it was the better airplanes, the World Wars, Spatial Explorations- Laika, the first dog on the space(Russians accomplishment), the landing on the moon(Americans accomplishment), the McDonalds-one of the many multinationals that only emerged in this century, the music- only in this century we had major superstars, From Elvis Presley to Michael- and the expansion of Democracy.
We can conclude, from the video, from the things we know, that it wasn’t all pretty, all music, all development, but it also was lots of suffering and people will never forget the wars, the deaths and all the drama that came from it, but without it we, probably, wouldn’t be where we are now, more safety, more freedom, more time, more commodities, more DEMOCRACY!