I think it would be the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Nothing beats that because all of a sudden the US became a complete single unipolar powerhouse. All the nation states including India that had closed economies had to shift towards open economies as they realized that system was not working out.
You had McDonalds all the way in Russia. That is how you knew capitalism truly won over communism.
I cannot imagine any other event of the 1990's that shook the world as much as the dissolution of the soviet union.
Today that event still impacts the world as Russia in its present form is too small to fight for itself and thus fell into the sphere of influence of China.
Is there any other major event of the 1990's that had as great an impact?
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I'd point to the Human Genome Project, even if it didn't technically finish in the 90s. Before then we had no idea what most of our DNA did, solving that revolutionised our understanding of disease and medicine. It's at a similar level to the first antibiotics.
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I will take your word for it.
I hope mapping out ones DNA gets even cheaper over time.
Do you know what's the newest disease that's been cured?
I think we are pretty close to curing AIDs right?
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Sequencing speed and cost effectiveness has improved exponentially. At the start of the project it'd have taken 100 years for a genome, now it's a day.
For applications I'd break it down by decade:
1990s: identify genes
2000s: map genes to function
2010s: associate mutations with disease
2020s: trial gene therapies
There's already been success with inherited blindness and other diseases. More to come
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That's awesome.
2030's have cures and therapies released into the main market
2040's have gene therapy costs go down and become easily accessible
2050's gene therapies available at moderate cost in 3rd world nations.
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