World Expo 2010: Shanghai

[eagleseven]

World Expo 2010 Shanghai: We're Here | Popular Science

The first World's Fair was held in London in 1851--the center of the rapidly industrializing modern world. Under the banner of the “Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations,” the first Expo (held before even the first transatlantic telegram was sent) was literally the only place one could go to learn anything about the latest technologies of industry and design pushing the world forward.

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2010 marks an interesting resurgence. China has invested more state money in the Expo—$45-$60 billion is the unofficial range making the rounds--than it did for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Granted, the Expo will last six months and not two weeks, but the number is still staggering. Writing in Canada's Globe and Mail, Mark MacKinnon sees the Expo as a natural follow up to those impressive Games, noting that now, as opposed to thrusting itself onto the world's main stage, it's the world's turn to come to China. In fact, MacKinnon smartly points out that 189 of the world's 196 countries are represented here in some way, hoping to get a wink and a smile during future dealings with the world's most rapidly expanding economy.

Chinese ascendancy...plus lots of cool gadgets!

 

[Old Rocks]

I would really love to go there. The technology on display should be truly mind bogling.