n the vacuum of this interim period we're offered up a brief window of reflection. Before another cycle of froth and evangelism sets in (cough cough AI), perhaps it's a good time to ask ourselves about what we just went through?

Between 1920 and 2020, humanity did something unprecedented: we made a world almost entirely for ourselves. Not for gods, not for kings, but for the individual human being. In these hundred years, we birthed mass culture and it became our shared nervous system. Everything from Elvis’s hips, Sputnik’s launch, and the Fri... See more