> Lots of mysterious terms are bandied about excitedly in ted Talks, at government think tanks, and at high-tech conferences—globalization, blockchain, genetic engineering, AI, machine learning—and common people, both men and women, may well suspect that none of these terms is about them.

globalization - by definition effects billions of people

genetic engineering - in 2016 GM crops, according to Wikipedia, make up 12% of global cropland

blockchain - digital time-stamping service that scales to the unfathomable rate of 7 transactions per second

It tells me the author is unable to separate wheat from chaff, as if writing this:

> Lots of mysterious terms are bandied about excitedly in ted Talks, at government think tanks, and at high-tech conferences—globalization, HDMI to VGA adapters, genetic engineering, AI, machine learning—and common people, both men and women, may well suspect that none of these terms is about them.