As this Brigada Today goes out the door, we’re a dozen days into the new year. As you look back on 2009… and, in fact, the entire decade, how will you remember the years from Jan. 1st, 2000 to Dec. 31st, 2009? Let me give you some choices… so in the Comment box below, you can just put the letter for your answer.
- a) social networking (Facebook)
- b) text messaging
- c) blogging
- d) 2 wars
- e) reality TV
- f) Destruction of the World Trade Center
- g) Election of the USA’s first black president
- h) Darfur
- i) Rap music
- j) Y2K (not)
- k) The fact that the decade never developed a ‘tag name’ of its own?
- L) YouTube
- m) AD2000 & Beyond ended and, essentially, nothing took its place
- n) 2 recessions
- o) cell phones
- p) ipod
- q) Wikipedia
- r) apathy
- s) “24” (the TV show)
- t) Red Sox winning the World Series (2004)
- u) earthquakes
- v) the tsunami
- w) Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize
- x) Al Gore predicting global warming
- y) Al Gore saying he created the Internet (on the eve of the decade)
- (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp)
- z) [ what’s *your* answer? “other” ]
m) In some way the Ethnê to Ethnê movement took place for AD 2000, as they concentrate on the Unreached Peoples in this world. There is a difference, in AD 2000 there were many different streams, the Ethnê to Ethnê movement has a kind of single-mind-set, which is very helpful.
f) Destruction of the World Trade Center
f) Destruction of the World Trade Center
Islam: The wounded dragon fights back
Z: If you use the more conservative figure I have heard (20,000 per day), 73,000,000 Chinese trusted in Christ as Savior. If you use Don Richardson’s figure (35,000 per day), 127,750,000 Chinese trusted in Christ as Savior in the “unnamed” decade! To God be all glory!
Z – The flattening of the world – many of your items are covered by this – widespread broadband access, iPod, Facebook, cell phones, Skype, Wikipedia, blogging, YouTube, collaboration, all are possible due to the enormous leaps in communication infrastructures. Even terrorism is more enabled due to this infrastructure. I’d suggest that or some variation of it will become the tag for the decade. Even Al Gore is covered (in spite of Snopes’ spin).