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1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind Good piece comparing the anxieties of the early 1900s, an era of great and rapid technological change, to the present time. In “The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914” by Philipp Blom, he describes how turn-of-the-century technology changed the way people thought about art and human nature and how it “contributed to a nervous breakdown across the west”. “Disoriented by the speed of modern times, Europeans and Americans suffered from record-high rates of anxiety and a sense that our inventions had destroyed our humanity. Meanwhile, some artists channeled this disorientation to create some of the greatest art of all time.”