Cheerful news from 2022 ..
The top ten research and application highlights of 2022 are given here. Courtesy Guardian UK. Humanity as a whole found 2022 to be a beneficial one with these top ten highlights -
1. The world reached peak agricultural land, meaning we will not be using any more land for agricultural processes, we will improve the density of cultivation on existing land and cultivate using aquaponics and so on, to save precious land
3. US deployed the $10 billion James Webb telescope in space (click here) which can see into the Universe 100 x more effectively and deeper than the Hubble telescope. Our understanding of the Universe has improved, recently using the Webb telescope we discovered a galaxy 13.4 billion light years away
5. Philippine farmers harvest for the first time genetically modified (GM) Golden rice, (click here) which is having higher levels of Vit A.
6. Guinea worm has been almost eradicated from the planet
8. Lab grown meat (click here) gets US FDA approval in US.
9. SARS Cov2 vaccine saved 14-20 million lives across the world due to Covid 19 related deaths
A fact we can all be happy about is humanity as a whole is development. Even though we hear and read about lot of negative things happening around, there is cause for cheer as good things too keep happening.
The world twenty years hence will be a much better place than what we see now, let us hope.
Doing an analysis, I found that 6 of these 10 points were related to the medical/ healthcare field, four were related to the agriculture and food spectrum while just one was related to the Science/technology area, though we know these times are technology times and how Internet and communications technology (ICT) continues to make human lives easier and more productive over the years.
When the world population from the present 7.8 billion touches 10 billion around 2052 AD, will we then be thankful for the year 2022 ?
George.
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