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What revolutions went down in your lifetime?

When I asked myself that question, shortly after reading a think-piece on the almost certainly imminent biotech revolution (also almost certainly copy and pasted from the last 10 almost-biotech revolutions), I first had to ask “Wait, how old am I?”

And then, “REALLY?”

And then, “What does it mean when people say “revolution”?

For these purposes, which are pretty narrow and entirely of my own invention, I don’t mean some single moment in time, unless it was a bellwether for something bigger.

And I don’t mean the revolutions that have necessarily most directly impacted me. When I think “revolution” I imagine a building up of…something…that affected most people directly or indirectly, so that’s the threshold I’ll use here.

The list below is in no way comprehensive, I’m a generalist bonehead who definitely missed some significant items. I am 40, though I feel like I’m 99, so anyways I’m going to use 1982 as my starting point. YMMV.

INI is about looking forward, to understand where we are and where we might be going, so we can build a better today and tomorrow for everyone. But to do so, it’s helpful to look back a little bit to understand how we got here, what’s underway, and what might be brewing, for better or worse.

Because the more we have our eyes on these currents, the more we can strike at the root to influence them.

For simplicity’s sake, I’ve broken our revolutions down into three classes:

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