The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.
People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.
Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.