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where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history,

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Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Megna.

We are at episode four score.

So what's your headline?

The basic disturbance of the 21st century.

I'm going to presume you're not talking about a disturbance in the force, Jack.

So what is the basic disturbance of the 21st century?

Well, I'm adapting a line of Peter Drucker, the management theorist, the social ecologist, as he called himself.

He wrote that mass production was the basic disturbance of the 20th century.

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