I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?… If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is! Bill Maher
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There are a lot of people who don't want to admit that things have changed. In fact, I think that's one of the biggest problems we have today. We're so used to seeing the world as it's always been that we can't imagine a new way to do things. But some of the most profound transformations in history have come not from some big central idea, but from adapting what's already there.

The internet was a perfect example: It wasn't a single thing, but a bunch of different technologies all connected together by a simple protocol. Once enough people were using it, it started to change the world.

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