Swedish doctor and researcher Hans Rosling gives an awesome talk at TEDIndia on the trends in economies and when Asia (China & India, precisely) will overtake the West. Rosling sports a killer Swedish accent but has even better visuals and whit. He’s managed to put together software that clearly draws out the historical trend of the major economies over the past 150 years or so. He maps out income per person over life expectancy with the US, UK, China, India, & Japan on the graph and shows the trajectory each of these economies has taken up until today.  And he then predicts exactly when India & the Red Dragon will surpass Europe and the US. As he’s telling a great story throughout, the charts and visuals give the brain a way to really digest what he’s saying. I’m gonna watch some more of his stuff…

Update: you can try his visualization software free online: http://www.gapminder.org/ Well, it’s actually Google’s now…