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15. What is the advantage of graphical data presentation?

Easy, fast to understand, good for hypothesis building

Hans Rosling, New Insights on Poverty

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1. What did the UN do with their databases?

They opened them to the public.

2. What happened to many children in the 19th century?

One fifth didn’t survive the first year.

3. What’s happening in emerging economies today? And who are they?

They have good social and medical progress, but are behind in economic terms, Asian, Latin American and Arab countries

4. What is the car race about?

Comparing social and economic development of Japan, Sweden and US, Japan winning the race
5. What does Rosling’s family history show?

It shows Sweden’s historical development compared to countries today

6. What are the issues that the global leaders discuss?

Emission of CO2, Who is responsible for pollution, who should be allowed to pollute? transformation of all economies towards cleaner industries

7. What does Dollar Street visualise?

Earnings and housing: how people live according to their income

8. What is the best converter of sunlight to food?

Cassava: a tropical root with large starch content which needs to be treated before eating
9. How do you get information in Africa?

You need to live there

10. What does Rosling say about African development over the last 50 years?

They did the best, developing from pre-medieval to Europe 100 years ago.

11. What’s the difference between means and goals of development?

Means: instrument (requirements), goals: aims

12. What is the most important means?

Economic growth
13. What is the most important goal?

Human rights and culture

Hans Rosling, Global population growth

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1. What has Rosling developed from (presentation technique)?

From digital to analog (IKEA boxes)

2. What was the world like in 1960?

Big gap between 1 billion rich in the west and 2 billion poor in the rest
3. What does Rosling think about the mindset of ‘the West and the rest’?

This mindset belongs to 1960! It is no longer valid.

4. What is the size of the world population today?

7 billion

5. How many people live in the emerging economies?

4 billion (3 billion plus one billion which is already rich)

6. What is their family size? And what do they aspire to?

Two children per woman, bike, motorbike, eventually car
7. What will happen in the future?

The best of the emerging economies will catch up with the west, all move to the right

8. What’s the difference in population growth between the poorest 2 billion and the others?

The poorest will double in size, the others will stay the same

9. How can population growth be stopped?

By helping them develop economically, by increasing child survival

10. What leads to higher child survival?

Economic development (improved education and health)

11. What is Rosling’s hope for the future?

That population growth will be stopped at 10 billion

12. Rosling is neither an optimist nor a pessimist. What is he? And based on what is this?

Possibilist, realistic data and UN projections

13. What is the role of the ‘old west’ in the new world?

Foundation for the new world

Solutions Steve Blank’s Secret History of Silicon Valley

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1. What does he try to show in the introduction (1st slide)?

Silicon Valley is much older than we think, started in 40s and 50s

2. What is the first story about?

WW2, the first electronic war

3. When and why did the United States join World War 2 (WW2)?

December 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbour

4. How did the British and the Americans fight the Germans?

Strategic bombing campaign

5. How many airmen were killed on the Western front?

160000

6. What were the three functions of the Kammhuber line (German air defence system)?

Warn and detect, target and aim, destroy

7. What did the Allied Forces do to find out more about the German systems?

Founded the Harvard Radio Lab

8. How did the Allied Forces shut down the German air defence system in the raid on Hamburg?

by using ‘chaff’, aluminium strips that jam the German radar

9. What does this talk about WW2 have to do with Silicon Valley?

The head of this Lab was Fredrick Terman, Stanford professor

10. What is Fredrick Terman’s public claim to fame?

He encouraged Hewlett and Packard to start a company

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