If you had to pick a date for when “the world as we know it” began, whatever that means to you, what would it be?
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Map this roughly to “the British Empire & European balance-of-power”, and “American hegemony and the nuclear age”
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Seem right that somewhere between 1907 and 1919 if you have to pick, based on history, old photos, and current power structures and institutions. The Who how why are important questions, no? Short timescale but multi generations back.
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Okay, but is this one of the two most important bits for making distinctions across the last 100Myr?
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