The "second machine age" we are living through, with its hollowing out of middle-class jobs and replacement of people through apps and automation, is bound to bring about severe dislocation.
Given the economic calamity we're living through, with much of the problem rooted in the troubled housing market, I'll bet you're not eager to buy real estate.
Born just four years after China's last imperial dynasty fell, he's lived through warlordism, invasion, civil war, war with America, the largest famine in history, the Cultural Revolution, and a three-decade economic miracle.
The third is the one we are living through now, with our lives transformed by IT, electronics, the internet, Google and apps.
We are living through unprecedented times, with a cacophony of world-shaking events bombarding us daily.
We're living through a cultural moment, with a multitude of voices clamoring for women to lead the charge to redefine success -- in ways that benefit women and men alike.
But everything we are living through now is, sadly, consistent with history.
We were living through an Ice Age, armed with bows and arrows.
Today, the event we are living through is just as momentous – but with more tabloid lying and internet memes, and bleaker economic prospects.
Science is living through an unprecedented crisis of reproducibility, with an associated loss of efficiency, waste of resources, and an impressive list of misdiagnoses in fields from forensics to economics, medicine to psychology, and nutrition to chemistry.
