Introduction
Stop for a second and imagine a world with no social media, where a Bitcoin would only hurt your teeth, TikTok was just the noise a clock made, Uber only meant ‘above’ in German, people would have thought you were bad at spelling if you wrote Canva, Alibaba was just an unlucky woodcutter, people couldn’t use their phones for much more than making a call, commercial space travel was only in science fiction comics, no one knew what an iPhone was, 9/11 hadn’t happened, the only financial crises talked about were in history books, no one knew what COVID-19 was or who Edward Snowden was and America had only had Caucasian presidents.
This was the world 20 years ago.
Fast forward to today and all these things either feel old or very much ...
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