Welcome to the 21st Century

Welcome to the 21^st century! Is this the 20 hundreds or the 2000s? Only one New Year celebration has passed, but this year’s celebration required us to spend more time reflecting on the past and considering what the future will bring

 At the beginning of the past century our world contained about a billion people with a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Last July, the world’s population passed the 6 billion mark with life expectancy in the developed nations of greater than 70 years. The incr…