You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Star Trek.
In November 2015, David Sims wrote about the return of Star Trek to television.
You were born in December of 1967. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 3 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Mark Harris wrote about the hippie culture that flourished on San Francisco's famous Haight Street.
Around the time you were born, the South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard successfully completed the world's first human heart transplant.
In October 2016, Haider Javed Warraich talked about how far death can be put off by medical science.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Fame was released in 1980.
Around your 18th birthday, terrorists killed at least 16 and wounded more than 100 in Rome and Vienna airports, attacks which U.S. President Ronald Reagan blamed on Muammar Gaddafi.
In April 2013, Philip Bump wrote about the effectiveness of the American war on terror.
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At 21 years old, you saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
“It was thought that all borders between men had similarly disintegrated, and we were all destined to be free and empowered individuals in a global meeting place,” wrote Robert Kaplan 20 years later.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after websites.
In February 2015, Julie Beck wrote about what is lost when websites change or disappear.
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In 2006, Connie Britton, who was born the same year as you, began starring in the TV series Friday Night Lights, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards.
In July 2010, Tony Lee wrote about the strong marriage depicted by Britton and Kyle Chandler in Friday Night Lights.
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When you turned 43, you saw the rise of the Arab Spring.
People across the world rediscovered the power and peril of revolutions, as Laura Kasinof found in Yemen.
By the time you turn 57, the World Bank predicts that the U.S. dollar will lose its global dominance.
In February 2012, Charles A. Kupchan wrote about the world's emerging economies, and how the world will look by 2050.
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