Inflection Point

 

Concept: Sudden inflection points in technology, geopolitics, geo-ideology.

In the end, what Psycho had been about was a strange kind of permission that comes with voyeurism—if you let me see you, then I can destroy you, or spare you. Psycho was the new American film, and the assurance in its maker of having a bit of fun with so much blood seemed like a new attitude.

Inflection point
All of a sudden
Reflection point
In the mirror
Inflection point
All of a sudden
Earthquake and wave
What will be saved?

Moment of Psycho
Birth of the internet
Velvet Revolution
Tienanmen Square
The Arab Spring
Twitter and Instagram
Changing the world
Tenuous at best

Broadcast television
Behind the Iron Curtain
Was largely underground
Freedom made the waves 
Now the real revolution
Is in the data itself
The harder the drive
The tougher the Self

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