The 20th. was the American Century. To whom will the century 21st. belong ?
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Realistically, I would say China looks like a good bet. I want it to be America, but I would be lying if I said that China won't eventually surpase the US.
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Consider this:  2020 is 14 years from now.  14 years ago it was 1992.(1)  In March 1992, Microsoft released Windows 3.1 along with its first promotional campaign on TV; the software sold over three million copies in its first two months on the market.(2)  Also, only two years prior the first digital cellular phone call was made in the United States in 1990, which meant that at that time a majority of people didn't own one.(3)  In November Bill Clinton defeats GHW Bush, and Ross Perot in the US Presidential election.  It will be two more years until Yahoo! is founded in 1994, by Jerry Yang and David Filo, meaning that the Internet, and email, are still in it's early days, and non-existant to the typical person.(4)\n\nSo, what will life be like 14 years from now?  I'd suggest  reading "The Singularity is Near" by futurist Ray Kurzweil. (5)  In his book he envisions an event--the "singularity"--in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that human bodies and brains will merge with machines.  He predicts this will happen only 25 years from then in 2045!  Bodies and brains merging with machines!\n\nI think it's possible that:\n- Smoking will be illegal anywhere in the US.\n- McDonalds is no longer associated with "Fast food"\n- The US could be in a major conflict with North Korea or China\n- Paparazzi-type photography could be illegal (because of it's contribution to the death of someone famous)\n- The cellphone of 2020 will be more powerful than the highest end desktop computers of today\n- Google will have been defeated and absorbed by Yahoo! and Microsoft\n- High Definition television will be streamed to the average household via a network medium such as the internet to lightweight, flexible, mobile displays\n- Vehicles will have the ability to completely override a driver in an emergency situation, as well as be able to "cruise" our highways autonomously\n- Recreational travel to outer atmospheres (technically space) allowing travelers to experience weightlessness,  will be common for the affluent\n- Global Warming is completely disproved by scientists\n\nI DON'T THINK it's possible that:\n- A cure for cancer will be available\n- 3 dimensional travel will be common (such as flying cars)
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*Pouncing* This is the 21st century, just as the last century was the 20th. Basically take the first two digits in a year 2006 as an example and add 1 (20+1=21) to get the current century.\nThe 21st century is the century that began on 1 January 2001 and will last to 31 December 2100. Frequently common usage regards the 21st century as spanning 2000 to 2099, though this method of counting ignores the fact that there is no year 0 in the anno Domini (AD/BC) year-numbering system. In 2000 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) implicitly backed the common usage by defining a calendar that places the origin of the counting in a year zero.\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/21st-century?method=6
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No one can deny that the 21st century is the century of globalization,the world is becoming more and more globalized but i think globalization and attachment to own indentity goes hand in hand,that is,you can't go on mingling if you think your gonna lose your identity,so the future belongs to ppl who will be able to mingle and at the same time remain their identity,it is not easy,but it is one of the things facing the upcoming generations,and we have to cope up with it and learn how to do this paradox just as we learn any other skill.
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Yes.  People who don't think so are comparing the absolute cream of the crop from the past with everything that's out today.  It is an unfair comparison.  We won't be certain what the cream of our crop is until it rises to the top, and survives the test of time.  When it does, however, I'm willing to bet, at least as far as movies are concerned, that most people will agree, the early 21st century is a golden era.
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I wasn't gonna answer this question, but the more I thought about it, I figured I may as well.  I think the 80s were.  Well.. no... maybe the 60s.  AW HELL I don't like this question.  I say the 60s for breaking down the racial wall.  (Not that they were fun times, at all, but the strength of those fighting was amazing and did wonders for society today).  But in the 80s we realized that we are a united country that can fight for hunger and sickness. Remember when AIDS came out?? Suddenly musicians took a stand to do more with their money than spend it on parachute pants and cases of hairspray. It was a time when the nation came together with Hands Across America and Live Aid, etc etc etc.  Kids in my school started focusing on world news, instead of highschool ball scores. We had presidents shot at, a Beatle was murdered, space shuttles exploded, Russia toke their finger off the button, gays and lesbians were coming out all over the place and fighting for their equallity.  Microwaves became a household product. Didn't viagra hit the market in the late 80s? lol  It was a year of eye opening things. Maybe not a technological boom, as much as a psychological boom.  Shrinks were less shunned upon. Divorces were no longer taboo. Massive hurricanes hit the coast, and I personally saw neighborhoods becoming one family- taking care of each other like none before.  Limits were being put on music and euthanasia issues hit the scene when a girl named Teri Shaivo was in coma, and her parents wanted to keep her alive, while her husband wanted to pull the plug.  Walls fell in Germany. The 80s really influenced the way I saw the world.  It seemed almost like the decade pulled many countries closer together so our people and their people could hug. I'm not sure what happened in the 90s, and I'm not so sure the 2000-2010 decade will be much better.
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Join the 21st century.  We just knocked down one East-West wall, and we are trying hard to remove the vestigial traces of the cold war in favor of detente and prosperity.  Walls never have worked and never will work to keep out ignorance or progress.  We really need fewer walls and more friends.
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Communism that's sssooo twentieth century.
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the united states of america.
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its..verry near..the end of this age..\n\n666 is everywhere..now its time top end..\n\nnever going over than 2013ad..be in jesus..
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How about two modern American liberals. :-) J/K
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2008.\n\nTHAT IS LIKE 0.2 DECADES.\n\nTHIS ANSWER DESERVES 10.
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No. Officially it's 1946-1964.
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Sometime in the 20th century
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Independent\n\nNeither party represents Americans anymore!
180055
Nice answer...but the question says 1800s and your answer says 1900s?
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50's and 60's and old and new country.