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Ironically, new technology has reinforced the nostalgic cultural gaze: now that we have instant universal access to every old image and recorded sound, the future has arrived and it’s all about dreaming of the past.
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Or “…maybe America and the rich world are on the verge of a cascade of the wildly new and insanely great.” I think it’s difficult to generalize progress. Yeah, let’s go with this one.
