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Modern problems are issues and risks that have emerged in the modern-era. These are problems that are perceived as originating or becoming worse in the past 50-100 years. Modern problems can be driven by change such as changes to technology, industries, markets, society, culture, institutions, values and lifestyles. In other cases, they are longstanding problems that have taken on modern characteristics. The following are common examples of modern problems.
Addiction | Air Pollution | Biotechnology Risk | Bullying | Censorship | Civility / Rule of Law | Commoditization of the Human Experience | Corporate Accountability | Corporate Capture | Corruption | Cost of Education | Cost of Healthcare | Cost of Living / Inflation | Crime | Cronyism | Cultural Rights | Cybercrime | Cyberwar | Deforestation | Desertification | Disability Barriers | Discrimination & Intolerance | Economic Opportunity | Environmental Justice | Excessive Bureaucracy | Extinctions | Family Stability | Food Insecurity | Garbage / Waste | Global Warming | Government Accountability | Habitat Fragmentation | Health | Housing Affordability | Human Rights Violations | Hunger & Malnutrition | Inactive Lifestyles | Land Degradation | Light Pollution | Loss of Habitat | Microplastics / Ocean Plastic | Misinformation & Disinformation | Modern Diseases | Nanny State / Paternalism | Noise Pollution | Nuclear Disasters | Nuclear Weapons | Obesity | Police Oversight & Accountability | Political Polarization | Poverty | Quality of Education / Lack of Education | Racism | Recessions & Depressions | Refugees | Rights of Indigenous Peoples | Social Injustice | Social Isolation & Loneliness | Social Media Addiction | Space Junk | Surveillance / Privacy Issues | Sustainable Agriculture | Sustainable Energy | Tax Burden | Tax Evasion | Technology Addiction | Technology Related Existential Risk | Terrorism | Totalitarianism | Toxic Waste / Industrial Waste | Trade Wars | Unemployment / Underemployment | Unhealthy Lifestyles | Video Game Addiction | War & Conflict | Water Insecurity | Water Pollution | Weapons of Mass Destruction |
NotesThe list above is non-exhaustive.Technically speaking, the modern-era begins around 1500 and might be over now. However, when people speak of modern problems they are usually referring to problems of the past 50 years or so.Commoditization of the human experience is the tendency for products and services to be designed to meet every human need such that the human experience becomes completely commercialized. For example, social status is traditionally about behavior and your relationships with other people in your community and society. This can be commoditized with the idea that products and service can represent social status such as an individual who signals that they are a good person with their choice of vehicle or signals that they are wealthy with a handbag.Although the modern-era has many problems, quality of life has certainly improved on a global basis. For example, life expectancy has massively increased on a global basis over the past 100 years. It is historically common for each age to view itself as the worst period in history or the end of history.
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