Where in the world is life changing the fastest ?
Social Technologies, a Washington, D.C. consulting firm, tries to determine and quantify this with its new Speed of Change Index. The index factors changes in urbanization, literacy, civil liberties, gross domestic product per capita and access to a telephone, TV and the Internet. For each category, Social Technologies pulled data from the most authoritative single source it could find, including the UN Development Programme, Freedom House and the World Resources Institute.
The more these factors have changed over the last
