They've been human aspirations before they were concepts and companies—they were complicated ideas that are now complex. Some words we use, some words we abuse. Mega- —from Ancient Greek μέγας, mégas in Latin—is a unit prefix in metric systems of units denoting a factor of one million (10 to the 6the power or 1,000,000.) Literally ‘great.’ Everything large is ‘mega.’ Think megapixel and megabyte in computing, megahertz is frequencies, megastar in popularity, megaplex and mega mergers in size. There’s more nuance in meta. As an adjective, meta is self-referential, at a higher level. For example, a joke about jokes is...
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