The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason, since reading it as a teenager, what has stuck was something different and more specific. Namely that as time went on, the quality of all goods, services and tools that people relied on got unquestionably worse. In the story, this happened slowly enough that many people didn't notice. Even if they did, there was little they could do about it, because this degradation happened across the board, and the population had no choice but to settle for the only available options. I think about this a lot, because these days, I see it everywhere around me. What's more, if you talk and listen to seniors, you will realize they see even more of it, and it's not just nostalgia. Do you know what you don't know?…