# Utopia Is Loading

> Proof the world keeps getting better


## Posts

- [The Loading Bar: watch a century load in ten seconds](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/the-loading-bar-watch-a-century-load/): A new tool: drag a slider from 1900 to 2050 and watch the world fill up, honestly.
- [Why the world feels worse than it is](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/why-the-world-feels-worse/): I was on a treadmill when the crane fell over. Why the news shows us the sudden, and misses the river underneath.

## Pages

- [Watch the world light up](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/tools/globe/): Press play and watch 125 years of life expectancy, child survival, poverty, incomes, schooling, disease and the vote spread across the globe, from Gapminder data.
- [The world since you were born](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/tools/since-you-were-born/): Type a year of birth and see how far the world has loaded in that lifetime, from open UN and World Bank data.
- [Guess first: ten questions about the world](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/tools/guess-first/): Ten questions about the world in the spirit of Hans Rosling, with today's figures and the curve behind each answer.
- [Tools](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/tools/): Interactive tools built on open data: The Loading Bar, a Rosling style quiz and the world since you were born.
- [Ideas](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/ideas/): Only 4% of Britons think the world is getting better. The data says they are wrong about almost everything.
- [Contact](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/contact/): I read everything, and I’d love to hear from you, especially if you think I’ve got something wrong.
- [Funding](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/funding/): Short answer: I do.
- [Corrections](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/corrections/): I will, sometimes. When I do, I'll say so here, plainly and with a date.
- [Editorial standards](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/editorial-standards/): Hope only helps if it’s true. So I show my working, I grade my own claims, and I’m as careful with the bad news as the good.
- [Start here](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/start-here/): Proof the world keeps getting better, with the evidence on show and the hard parts named honestly.
- [Articles](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/articles/): One article a week, each built around a real story, with the evidence on show and the strongest objection answered.
- [The Loading Bar](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/the-loading-bar/): Drag the slider from 1900 to 2076. Each bar fills to the real global figure for that year. Tap any bar to see its curve: slow, then sudden, then levelling off.
- [About](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/about/): I write Utopia Is Loading from Brighton. It’s one article a week about the progress you never hear about, with the evidence on show.
- [Home](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/): Warm, honest, sourced articles. Read one and feel a little calmer.
- [Privacy](https://lightyellow-octopus-417907.hostingersite.com/privacy-policy/): Short version: I collect as little as I can, I never sell anything, and there are no adverts or ad trackers here.


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