"Whereas once upon a time, it was one-size-fits-all -- you screwed up, you got a court-martial.
"Whereas once movie-making was the sole business of the studios," she writes, "now it is a relatively tiny part of a big company".
Whereas once our partners might have counted on a living wage and a job for life, they are now being made redundant or working zero-hours contracts.
Whereas once you just needed a lunchtime shopping trip for a new bikini and a pile of paperbacks to prep for your holiday, you now need to update your Instagram look.
Whereas, once the culinary tide went from France to New York, then shifted from East to West, it now glides from Farm to Table.
Whereas once Family Guy was the upstart/rip-off, now, it is the one holding out a life buoy to its drowning dad.
"Whereas, once, it was a client-side integration, we're now moving to a place where publishers are going to have a lot more choice as to how they integrate additional bidders or demand sources - be it client or server side".
Whereas once you only had to worry about call minutes and text messages, now companies offer capped data plans, plans that offer unlimited data for certain streaming services, plans that throttle your speed after a certain threshold, and so on.
Whereas once she'd write a book in six weeks, now they take her several years.
Whereas once we treated patients with horrendously toxic drugs, our new drugs are targeted.
Whereas once they go on the road, you have much deeper focus.
