SPUTNIK DECLASSIFIED A "Nova" program that looks back 50 years at the impact of the launching of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957 and how it altered everything from perceptions of Soviet scientific competence to the political landscape in America.
Just as the tide of figures is about to surge around us, or perhaps overwhelm us, a young man detaches himself and begins to tell me about the great error of his life, which was to send an email instead of a handwritten letter and how it altered everything.
And then of course I alter everything I buy for myself.
The 43-year-old continued: "It's altered everything in the match, the fact we were 1-0 down going into the second-half.
It is now the world's largest online retailer, and it has radically altered everything from the publishing industry, with Kindle, to cloud computing, with Amazon Web Services.
It alters almost everything managers do, from finding suppliers to co-ordinating projects to collecting and managing customer data.
This season had one of the year's best episodes, "If I Were a Bell," a late backstory that altered everything before it, making sense of the family's heavy layer of secrets and false fronts.
Foreknowledge of the condition, especially now that I know how quickly it can rob its victims of reason and adaptability, would alter everything from my estate planning to my travel schedule.
It has profound effects on the body, altering everything from hormones and body temperature to athletic ability, mood and brain function.
