clip A hundred years ago

7 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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Akun Ding compares information flow now versus a hundred years ago. A century back, distant disasters went unnoticed for months. Today you wake up to multiple global crises, market crashes, celebrity scandals, and conspiracy theories before brushing your teeth, all arriving instantly on your phone.

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100 years ago, if something terrible happened on the other side of the world, there was a decent chance you'd never hear about it. Today, you can learn about 5 disasters before breakfast. 10, if you're ambitious. You wake up, you check your phone. A political crisis, a market crash, a celebrity scandal, a climate catastrophe, a man explaining why pigeons are secretly government employees. And somehow, all of this arrives before you've even brushed your teeth.