What great changes have occured in the new Millenium?

With the advance of information technology, there is wider flow of thoughts and spread of education by distant mode. There is more democratization. We witnessed this in some middle east countries. There is also more terrorism in this period. The terrorists also get the latest weapons and technology. It is feared that the terrorists may damage the entire transport and other systems by computer virus and hijacking web sites.

Computers have really changed the world. But more people are becoming addict to it, including us. As Gulshanji suggested, cyber crimes are also increasing.

Now, mobiles are used by even common people. Since all the calls and messages are recorded, it has become easy for Police to find out many crimes more easily, than a decade before. ie. Though crimes have increased, modern technology is also advanced to find the criminals.

IT revolution! It has revolutionised our thoughts and actions! Has unleashed powers of an unimaginable kind!

There are many changes developed in the media and technology every day new things are developed.

In a new millenium india become the superpower in every aspect of field and achieve their goal.

Talking about changes one must take note of the unprecedented scale of environmental and ecological degradation that this millenium ha brought in which is proving to be a big challenge for the world.We have yet to be successful in our efforts in finding a credible alternative to fossil fuels which is almost a depleted source of energy. Energy crisis looms very large in the horizon!

Before 12 years, most families own a bicycle. But now, each working person has a car. As Chinmoyji told, fossil fuels have depreciated. I think, vehicles have almost doubled for the past 10 years.

Standard of living has increased for sure. But expenses have also increased many fold.
Value of money has depreciated. But value of land has increased.
Population has increased. But death rate has decreased.
Poverty has decreased. But necessities have increased.
Agricultural land has decreased. But people living in flats and villas have increased.
And thus goes on and on......

Summed up nicely! And these are going to create enormous pressures in this planet. Human need can be tackled but not human greed! We are leaving a dangerous world for our posterity!

The biggest problem to face, I think it will be global warming. Our beautiful planet is heating up, melting ice in the poles. Yet we can't do anything to check it.

Why can't government bring in laws to regulate the number of vehicles held by each people? Also, give a ration card for fuel subscription? I think, it will reduce the no. of vehicles considerably, thus saving some more petroleum products for our future generation.

If you put the activities of any government under the scanner, you would find one thing for sure, it is their recklessness in giving primacy to short term goals than thinking long term! All are behaving like 'prodigal sons'!!!

Sandhya you can write an article on this.Nice discussion and I think you will get promotion to editor or moderator of this site.You are really a knowledgeable and discussed so easily. We are proud by getting you as a friend.

Sandhya you can write an article on this.Nice discussion and I think you will get promotion to editor or moderator of this site.You are really a knowledgeable and discussed so easily. We are proud by getting you as a friend.

Thank you Ram for your compliment. As you said, I can try to write an article in the matter. But I think Mukherjeeji or Gulshanji can explain it more. Why can't anyone of you try it?

Ram.....my GK is very very very weak. As I studied IT, I didn't give much importance to GK or English.

Sandhya you can write an article on this.Nice discussion and I think you will get promotion to editor or moderator of this site.You are really a knowledgeable and discussed so easily. We are proud by getting you as a friend.

Thank you Ram for your compliment. As you said, I can try to write an article in the matter. But I think Mukherjeeji or Gulshanji can explain it more. Why can't anyone of you try it?

Ram.....my GK is very very very weak. As I studied IT, I didn't give much importance to GK or English.

I welcome the suggestion for writing article on environment, saving fuel and better utilization of resources etc. As regards the suggestion that I write an article, Please go through my articles on using natural resources and transport economy by following following links:

http://www.boddunan.com/miscellaneous/51-General%20Reference/7054-economic-use-of-transport.html

http://www.boddunan.com/business-a-finance/6-Other/5786-economic-use-of-natural-resources.html

Whatever we have inherited from our forefathers we have frittered it away and now looking to borrowing from our posterity!!!

A period of 12 years- Is there any term in English?

Dozen Years - I suppose!

Dozen Years - I suppose!

No....But I think there is a term in English. I read somewhere.
In Malayalam, it is called 'Vyazhavattom'.

A period of 12 years- Is there any term in English?

Years are in decades, centuries and millennium and not dozens, gross etc. We follow decimal system in counting years.

I have not comes across any single term in English denoting 12 years!

I have not heard of any English terms for 12 Years too.....but yes dozen years does't seem too appropriate.