I feel like we're at the other end of a wild 18-year technological and societal arc that started back in 2007.
Google Reader was in full swing, Twitter was taking off, the iPhone got announced, Obama was getting elected… it felt like technology could only get better and there was a clear path forward for America.
2016 was… let's call it an inflection point.
And now it feels like technology only gets worse, and America is this close to dissolving or winding down.