Economic historians call this The Great Divergence.

Not a big divergence in terms of uniform design for border guards admittedly, but in almost every other respect, it's a huge divergence.

So the tree of life is normally divergence over time.

Aegyptopithecus marked a divergence of old world monkeys, and apes.

There are six which I think explain the Great Divergence.

And you can see here that there's an exponential Great Divergence.

But one thing is for sure, the Great Divergence is over, folks.

So it's necessary to have both convergence, and divergence to establish, construct validity.

And this slide here is the best simplification of the Great Divergence story

You may think we can explain the Great Divergence in terms of geography.

Now we have divergence over time, but we've created the third dimension of area.

To put that into perspective, this red vertical bar here marks the divergence time of humans from chimpanzees, a mere seven million years ago.

So it really doesn't look like empire is a great explanation for the Great Divergence.

And that sometimes leads to bit of a divergence in why we're doing what we're doing.

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

But before we go through that process of divergence, there is actually quite an important first step.

It's not rebuilding Europe, it's reversing the divergence for the bottom billion, so that they actually catch up.

And this is part of a really extraordinary phenomenon, and that is the end of the Great Divergence.

But it's this process of trial and error that explains this great divergence, this incredible performance of Western economies.

And the result is an even bigger divergence in a very short space of time than happened in Germany.

They got on a boat, and yet another divergence the boat was either going to Canada or to Australia.

Well, I can tell you that this divergence that you're seeing here doesn't happen only in our five minute experiment.

In any case, as you may remember, the Great Divergence reaches its zenith in the 1970s, some considerable time after decolonization.

And if ye fear a divergence between the twain, set up an arbiter from his household and an arbiter from her household then if the twain desire rectification Allah shall bring harmony between the twain verily Allah is ever Knowing, Aware.

Enlightened self interest, because if that economic divergence continues for another 40 years, combined with social integration globally, it will build a nightmare for our children.

We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages.

That he may make that which the Satan casteth forth a temptation for those in whose heart is a disease and whose hearts are hardened and the wrong doers are in divergence far off

You get a divergence of Newtonian and quantum thinking at that point, you have a split in your dialog that is so deep, and so far, that they cannot bring this together at all.

Well, we collect data from satellites, from airplanes, from ground vehicles, from people.

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Not from what, from whom.

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