2010-2019: Ten years of heartbreak and hope, in photos
Years from now, this period will be remembered as a time when our advancements—fuelled by accelerated trends in consumerism and technology—were countered by an increasing concern for our degrading planet brought about by the consequences of these very advancements
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
2018
A data mining scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, the sale of data from some 50 million Facebook users, a Congressional grilling for founder Mark Zuckerberg, and the loss of $119 billion in stock value in a single day spelled a terrible year for the world’s leading social media network. In other Big Tech news, Apple became the fi rst American publicly traded company to reach $1 trillion in value, beating other Silicon Valley giants such as Amazon and Microsoft.
