I prepared this presentation for a YouTube special I have created titled "Zeitgeist". Zeitgeist means the defining spirit or mood of a particular period. In this monthly program, we review what happened in the world during the past month. In this presentation, I have brought together the significant moments and events of two months: August and September 2021. We cover areas including technology innovations, NFTs, metaverse, artificial intelligence, the TikTok algorithm, robots, blockchain, and more. We also cover world issues including climate change, Taliban, In the culture section: Squid Game craze conquers the world. In Turkey: Economic crisis, Z generation, TikTok politics, etc. Plus: TikTok trends, news, technology, culture, TV, and social media. The program is narrated in Turkish. However, the slides are in English. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALu0ORwNWA A similar one I prepared for January 2021 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNzn6n0n6Y February 2021 Zeitgeist is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQK6OVAhxU March 2021 Zeitgeist is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5todG0fI4 And April 2021 Zeitgeist is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SG1832kNM Zeitgeist May 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBiuj7K8FXo Zeitgeist June 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5BAFWs8ps July 2021 Zeitgeist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6d7DhK5nj0 I am sharing it with those of you who are interested in following global events and trends. Enjoy.

1. ZEITGEIST
August-September
2021

4. ZEITGEIST
Yangınlar Bitti Seller
Basladı

14. ZEITGEIST
Taliban Afganistan’ı Ele
Geçirdi

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Dünya

51. Is Starbucks secretly a bank? It may be one of the biggest banks in America.
The Starbucks card can be topped up with cash to spend at any Starbucks, giving users rewards for their purchases.
The total balance on Starbucks cards is over $1.6 billion.
In other words, customers are lending Starbucks $1.6 billion in cash… at 0% interest!
To put that in perspective, 85% of US banks have less than $1b in total assets.
Starbucks isn’t regulated as a bank because users can’t withdraw their balance as cash.
This means they aren’t effected by various regulations, including the need to hold a large cash balance in case of mass
withdrawals.
They are free to spend this loan on whatever they want, such as opening 350+ new stores per quarter.
To top it off, the Starbucks app is the second most used mobile point-of-sale payment platform in the US, sitting between
Apple Pay and Google Pay.
With the right #strategy, retail giants are more than capable of succeeding in adjacent and enabler industries like #fintech
and #payments!

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Teknoloji

64. THE NATURAL world is filled with complexity.
The more closely scientists study everything
from planets to atoms, the more structure
they find and the more detailed their
explanations must get. But if you want to
predict the behaviour of such systems, how
much detail do you need? To understand how
Earth’s oceans will behave, say, do you need
to track every individual molecule of water
within them?
This year’s Nobel prize for physics was
awarded to a trio of researchers who have
studied complex, chaotic and apparently
random systems and developed ways to
predict their long-term behaviour. Half of the
prize of SKr10m (about $1.1m) was shared by
Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University and
Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute
for Meteorology, in Hamburg. The other half
went to Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University,
in Rome.

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Space Age
Reusable Rockets and Mars Generation

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The AI Revolution
Robots, Machines, Algoritms

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Manifacturing Reality
CGI Characters & Deepfakes

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Decentralized Finance
Blockchain, Bitcoin, NFTs

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NFTs & Metaverse

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Computer Games
They Are So Much More Than Games

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3D Billboards
Metaverse is Coming

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TikTok

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Girisim

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Türkiye

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Politika

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Z Nesli

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Medya

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Popüler Kültür
Squid Game

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How Professions
Change on TikTok

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TikTok Türkiye Sosyal
Medya

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TikTok Akımlar
Komedi

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TikTok Akımlar
Komedi

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TikTok Akımlar

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TikTok/Müzik

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Magazin

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Fenomenler