Nigeria, March 17 -- From 1025 to 2025, the world has undergone a transformation exceeding 1000% in scale and impact. Given our era's rapid expansion of knowledge, the changes over the next 1000 years could be 100,000% greater.

One thousand years ago, the people who lived in this world then could not have imagined the world that we live in today. Things we take for granted about life today were beyond the scope of their imagination. Then, those who claimed to have brought civilization to Africa believed women had one extra rib than men because God used one of biblical Adam's ribs to make Eve. They never checked. Without empirical proof, they believed the sun revolved around the earth. The existence of the new hemisphere, now known as Nor...