We were just reaching the Brexit inflection point - the vote was on June 23rd ; nor the first iteration of Donald Trump as president.
An aussie IBM man Andrew Grill said; “I think you have to think like a start-up. It doesn’t matter if you are a 100 year-old company or 100-days-old.” Wise words.
The latest addition to the threat of extinction for humankind was apparently a fungus - a superfungus no less. Thankfully that doomsday scenario has not yet transpired.