“You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards.”
Steve Jobs, speaking at the 2005 commencement ceremonies at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.
It’s almost impossible to spot trends reading the news as it unfolds. Sometimes it helps to look back a decade or more to place today’s events in the proper perspective. That’s what these weekly “Blasts from the past” posts are all about.
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