Right now, marketers are still trying to get a read on how economic conditions may shake out, and there won’t be much clarity in the ad market until budgets are registered—a process that itself will be complicated by the ongoing geopolitical upheavals.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
3 Apr. 2026
During the major social upheavals of 2011 and 2019, students adopted a confrontational stance against the political and business elite to demand systemic reforms.
Authoritarianism, rule by force and revolutions with bloodshed are the norms.
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Stephen Mitchell,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
The Cost of Waiting What makes this moment structurally different from past technology revolutions is the combination of AI’s extreme capital intensity and its inverted labor disruption.
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