This era has seen the movement of human beings into space begin in earnest. The King became the first monarch to go into space. There has also been much progress in Information Technology and Medicine, much of which is down to the work of British scientists. There has tragically also been a nuclear war which has resulted in millions of deaths and resultant major changes in global climate, and a major epidemic in Africa, associated with the complete breakdown of society over much of that continent. The Commonwealth has been involved in both of these disasters, since many Commonwealth nations are African, along with Pakistan and India.