Tuesday's election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States has been called many things — "unprecedented," "shocking" and "stunning" among them.
Mitt Romney can tell the credulous mainstream media that such a thing is unprecedented and unthinkable in American politics all he wants, but he is just factually wrong.
The modern world of computers, cell phones, CCTV-camera, and the emerging Internet of Things offer unprecedented opportunities for tracking everything everyone does.
Many things are unprecedented about the run-up to next year's general election, but perhaps one of the least anticipated is the prominence mental health has acquired.
Almost all of our new and much-vaunted technological advances – the app economy, drones, self-driving cars, the internet of things – pose unprecedented and, as presently conceived, unjustified trade offs with our autonomy, privacy and data rights.
IoT-enabled harnessing of the information that is provided by federations of such IoT devices (which are often referred to as IoT things) provides unprecedented opportunities to solve internet-scale problems that have been too big and too difficult to tackle before.
Second, there are his "failures of moral leadership," which constitute a general degradation of his office via, among other things, his unprecedented, serial lying and efforts to destroy the institutional legitimacy of the free press.
The report is also attuned to the more insidious aspects of private commercial surveillance, recognising, for example, that the evolving internet of things poses unprecedented challenges for privacy and security and must proceed with transparency, accountability, and clear legal bases for data collection and use.
These things were unprecedented in Europe, and the US, the EU and various other countries and international organisations started imposing sanctions on Russia to punish it.
