The postwar years saw a rapid spike in the proportion of the world’s people living under democracy, largely driven by the independence won by India and Britain’s other colonies in South Asia. For most of the Cold War, the reach of democracy stayed roughly steady, with just over one in three people in the world living in democratic societies.[195] Yet the proliferation of communication technology outside the Iron Curtain, from Beatles LPs to color TVs, stirred discontent against the governments that suppressed it. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, democracy again expanded rapidly, reaching
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I respect Kurzweil for not saying Pakistan, hahaha.
