The Coolest Thing Ever, Pt II: Science, Technology & Revolution (X2)

... If you haven't checked out the Google Ngram yet, definitely read this New York Times article about it, then try it yourself ... Endless explorations are possible. This one tells a pretty dramatic story of the history of industrialized countries since the Industrial Revolution (focus on the green peaks--eras of revolution that occurred during second half of 18th century and first half of 20th century):

science [yellow],  revolution [green], technology [red], submission [blue] -- 1750-2008 

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The Coolest Thing Ever, Part I: The Millennial Discontinuity

Check out what happens at roughly the year 2000 in the charts below, created using Google's just released Ngram tool (for description, see this and this):

Hope[red] = Fear [blue] -- 1800-2008

Science [green], Technology [blue], Innovation [red] -- 1800-2008

China [blue] > India [red] > United States [green] -- 1800-2008

Truth [red] > Beauty [blue] > Hatred [green] -- 1800-2008

HT Tom Murphy (@viewfromthecave) for pointing out on the first chart that the the trend reverses at 2000, after I Tweeted this chart:

Hope[red] = Fear [blue] -- 1800-2000

 Initial verdict on Google's Ngram viewer: Coolest thing ever.