Editing First World (section)

===Present===
The movement of people and information largely characterizes the inter-world relationships in the present day.<ref name=diamond>{{cite book |last1= Diamond |first1= Jared |title= Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |year= 2005 |publisher= Penguin (Non-Classics) |location= New York |isbn= 0-14-303655-6 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/collapse00jare/page/495 495–496] |url= https://archive.org/details/collapse00jare/page/495 }}</ref> A majority of breakthroughs and innovation originate in Western Europe and the U.S. and later their effects permeate globally. As judged by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, most of the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years were from former First World countries (e.g., the U.S. and countries in Western Europe).<ref>{{Cite web
 | title = A World Transformed: What Are the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years?
 | publisher = Knowledge@Wharton
 | date = February 18, 2009
 | url = http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2163
|access-date=27 May 2017}}</ref>

The disparity between knowledge in the First World as compared to the Third World is evident in healthcare and medical advancements. Deaths from water-related illnesses have largely been eliminated in "wealthier nations", while they are still a "major concern in the developing world".<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Gleick
 | first = Peter
 | author-link = Peter Gleick
 | title = Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Disease 2000–2020
 | journal = Pacific Institute Research Report
 | pages = 2
 | date = August 12, 2002
 | url = http://www.pacinst.org/reports/water_related_deaths/water_related_deaths_report.pdf
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050504214621/http://www.pacinst.org/reports/water_related_deaths/water_related_deaths_report.pdf
 | archive-date = May 4, 2005
 | url-status = live}}</ref> Widely treatable diseases in the developed countries of the First World, [[malaria]] and [[tuberculosis]] needlessly claim many lives in the developing countries of the Third World. Each year 900,000 people die from malaria and combating the disease accounts for 40% of health spending in many African countries.<ref name=who>{{Cite web
 | title = Malaria (Fact Sheet)
 | publisher = World Health Organization
 | date = January 2009
 | url =https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/
|access-date=27 May 2017}}</ref>

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([[ICANN]]) announced that the first Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) would be available in the summer of 2010. These include non-Latin domains such as Chinese, Arabic, and Russian. This is one way that the flow of information between the First and Third Worlds may become more even.<ref>{{cite web |title=International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |date=4 October 2009 |url=http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm|access-date=27 May 2017}}</ref>

The movement of information and technology from the First World to various Third World countries has created a general "aspir(ation) to First World living standards".<ref name=diamond/> The Third World has lower living standards as compared to the First World.<ref name="leonard1542-3"/> Information about the comparatively higher living standards of the First World comes through television, commercial advertisements and foreign visitors to their countries.<ref name=diamond/> This exposure causes two changes: a) living standards in some Third World countries rise and b) this exposure creates hopes and many from Third World countries emigrate—both legally and illegally—to these First World countries in hopes of attaining that living standard and prosperity.<ref name=diamond/> In fact, this emigration is the "main contributor to the increasing populations of U.S. and Europe".<ref name=diamond/> While these emigrations have greatly contributed to globalization, they have also precipitated trends like [[brain drain]] and problems with [[repatriation]]. They have also created immigration and governmental burden problems for the countries (i.e., First World) that people emigrate to.<ref name=diamond/>