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Chris Downes
31 May 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world. National borders closed, supply chains were disrupted, hundreds of millions of people were stuck at home for months at a time and urgent action on global issues like climate change moved at a sluggish pace. Chris Downes captures the zeitgeist in his reference to frustratingly slow internet.
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