Give me a minute here. This might be good for you, too.
Now, I know you have wondered what the @%#*&@^ happened in the 20th century. It was like, well, the end of civilization and the beginning of Wii-ocracy. Bridges and principles fall, while small gesture-based gizmos make billions for foreign corporations. And that is the part that is easy to report.
On a larger scale, you had the death of space and time itself. Okay, that is shopping large, I know, but computer viruses can infest the globe in a matter of hours, and speculative markets can crash faster than the speed of sound. In the old days, when history was still interesting, the simple fact of physical distance between two places pretty much resisted the spread of bad things along with the good. There was a viscosity to space, and an insolence to time. They were like teenage kids, you could mobilize them eventually, but it cost you your will to live. So a lot of things just never got off the ground, and that included really bleak things, like tyranny.
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