That's where we were, 1900.

And so this photograph shows a small boy next to a codfish.

In just two months, it will be the year 1 900.

What would you have predicted, not knowing this?

It's bad history.

The first great American oilfield was Spindletop, . discovered in 1900

Built the Tesla coil.

We used to boast about fast social progress.

Married, single, unattached hiccupper.

A terrible disease. It was in the United States. It was in Europe.

And actually if we carry on as we are, it's a problem we're very unlikely to be able to solve.

France and Russia.

Don't stay on the same curve.

And here's an interesting ratio

Pretty much for the vast majority of history, no one gave a damn about 1950.

Very regrettably, 1,900 square meters of land become desert every second.

And you can see here the huge divergence that happens in property ownership between North and South.

1500 to 1800 maybe a little bit of economic growth, but less in a century than you expect to see in a year today.

lived in Asia and they made more than half the world's product.

This is a nuclear waste storage and encapsulation facility at Hanford site in Washington State, where there are over 1,900 stainless steel capsules containing nuclear waste submerged in water.

Here is GDP per capita from 1900 to 1929.

Lincoln could never have imagined how far his reputation would reach.

This is the consequence of not knowing that there are limits to what we can take out of the sea.

This meant that Baba and Junior would go to a frozen lake or frozen pond and cut a block of ice.

For instance we have all of the side arms that special agents have carried during their course of duty from the early 1900 s.

The vertical axis is just percent per year of growth, zero percent a year, one percent a year, two percent a year.

Ponzi scheme, but they decided to name it after him because he was the first person to really make it famous.

Candor's conjecture became known as the continuum hypothesis.

So 1860, they are seeing this dirty technology that is going to choke the life out of New York.

チーターが絶滅に危機に瀕しています 人間はチーターの絶滅の危機を防ぐことができるのでしょうか

Now, the varroa mite is what changed the game in beekeeping, and you can see, at the top right, the years are changing, we're coming up to modern times, and you can see the spread of the varroa mite from the early 1900s through now.

But here's what we can say what's natural in the last thousand years is that the planet was cooling down.

Federal Bureau of Investigation took it down for security purposes, sometime in the early 1900s.

With new technologies like Contour Crafting, those groups of people can also be employed in more creative activities of construction.

He was Swedish, and he said, if you double the CO2 level in the atmosphere, which he thought might this is in 1900 the temperature ought to go up about 5.5 degrees, he calculated.

Now, ironically, what happened was it was eliminated from all the temperate zones, which is where the rich countries are.

So if you go all the way back to the late 1800s early 1900s, the Korean peninsula, what we now consider both North and South Korea, they were occupied by the Japanese military.

Well, congratulations, because if you look at this particular slide of U.S. life expectancy, you are now in excess of the average life span of somebody who was born in 1900.

As we've already talked about as we exit the 1800s and we get to the early 1900s and we approach World War I the various powers of Europe are really on this race for empire it was part of national prestige and it helped build national wealth

I put 49 famous computers on this logarithmic graph by the way, a straight line on a logarithmic graph is exponential growth that's another exponential.

The coal revolution fueled the Industrial Revolution, and, even in the 1900s we've seen a very rapid decline in the price of electricity, and that's why we have refrigerators, air conditioning, we can make modern materials and do so many things.