Idiot's Delight | Compare and Contrast
1936: The world is in the middle of a global economic depression, which started with the stock market crash of October 1929.
Today: After record-breaking economic growth in the 1990s, supported by the spread of personal computers and the Internet, the world economy is softening into recession.
1936: News of events in other countries comes from those countries on short-wave radios.
Today: People all over the world are connected to the latest developments. Television news stations have bureaus all over the world, and many people get...
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