Richard MacManus on Nostr: Does anyone remember this Time magazine cover from December 2006? I wrote about it in ...
Does anyone remember this Time magazine cover from December 2006? I wrote about it in my latest Cybercultural post. What’s most striking reading that Time article now is the rose-tinted optimism common to that era: “This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person.”
Narrator: Of course, it didn’t pan out that way…
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