powerful voices for civil liberties ensured internet freedom and put much needed checks on domestic spy agencies. Long-overdue sanity came to the drug war, particularly once the marijuana prohibition dam was broken.
The environment continued to be a massive, thorny problem for mankind, but slow progress was made which was abetted by the development in the late 2010s and early 2020s of scalable fusion power. A broad coalition of renewable energy sources and carbon sequestration technologies began to turn the tide on Global Warming. By the 2030s significant damage had been done but progress was beginning to become apparent as well.
Visionaries like Elon Musk revolutionized transportation while prodding slow-moving governments to get mankind back into space exploration and expansion. by the Middle Part of the 21st Century humans were beginning to have a permanent presence off Earth, and starting out into the solar system.
3D Printing revolutionized the world, as did stem cell technology and massive advancements in medicine.
A globally connected populace became increasingly unwilling to tolerate oppression anywhere, by anyone. The cameras that george orwell envisioned governments using to watch the populace, were instead turned by the populace onto the governments.
New generations, raised with the internet, began to reconfigure government institutions to be more responsive in real-time to the needs of the people. To demand change.
The global trends toward higher living standards and less violence continued.
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