In the 2010s, Technology Brought Us Closer Together and Threatened to Tear Us Apart

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube—it's not hard to see where the Connected Era was headed

This article is part of a series celebrating our being 40 Years Bold, highlighting four decades—and counting—of Adweek, whose editors look back at notable news, trends and people, and at what could be in store for the next 40 years.

If you are a human adult participating in today’s world, I have some bad news for you: You’ve been compromised.

Over the past decade, in which we saw data breach after data breach from a random assortment of businesses—from banks (2019, Capital One, 106 million accounts) to retailers (2013, Target, 110 million users) to ride-booking companies (2017, Uber,

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This story first appeared in the Dec. 9, 2019, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.