New at Reason: The Correction of an Editing Mistake in Last Week's "Reason Staffers Pick the Best and Worst Things of The Decade"
Due to my editing mistake, Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward's contribution to last week's very popular article, "Reason Staffers Pick The Best and Worst Things of The Decade" was inadvertently excised.[*] I've added it to the original story and am happy to include it below, too:
Katherine Mangu-Ward, Senior Editor
Worst: The End of the End of History. In 1992, Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man, and we were all supposed to sail off into the sunset on the U.S.S. Liberal Democracy. But then the Russian Bear woke up grumpy, 9/11 went down, Iran decided to it was in the mood for nukes, the word Islamofascism started appearing in newspapers. History resumed.
Best: Cell phones. A good innovation is one that makes life before it seem unimaginably difficult. In the dark days at the end of the 20th century, cell phones had more or less assumed their modern form, but most people still didn't own one. Ownership levels around the globe struggled to crack double digits, and even in the U.S. fewer than a third of adults owned a cell phone. Today, 87 percent of Americans have a mobile, and that figure rises to 94 percent under the age of 45. More than half the world's population now carries a phone in their pocket, and many developing nations have skipped over landline infrastructure entirely. At the dawning of a new decade, one question plagues us: How did people ever manage to meet for lunch in the '90s?
Read the whole story again here.
[*]: As was a full sentence in the original post here.
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The omission was racist.
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"Due to my editing mistake, Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward's contribution to last week's very popular article, "Reason Staffers Pick The Best and Worst Things of The Decade.""
Missing something?
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Thanks, I found that amusing as well.
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Nick has deleted something in his admission of deletion. His editing mistake confession includes an editing mistake.
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I no longer care - she's married.
It's time to reflect, remember the good times, and move on.
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"Reflect"? Hmm. Is somebody teasing me about my blog?
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No.
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“”””But then the Russian Bear woke up grumpy,””’’ after having its pockets picked by a bunch of oligarchs and Harvard economists
“”””9/11 went down””” and after 8 years and trillions spent some guy with a bomb down his pants can still attempt another.
“””Iran decided to it was in the mood for nukes”””, Iran has been in the mood for nukes (as in nuclear power) since the Shah.
“”””the word Islamofascism started appearing in newspapers””’ Which just shows how low today’s newspapers have sunk.
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That's OK, Nick, these things happen as we get older.
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How did people ever manage to meet for lunch in the '90s?
I don't know. I don't have a cell phone, either. Is that why I never get invited to lunch? I thought it was my goiter.
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I have to admit that this 37-year-old hasn't caught the cell phone bug. For that matter, I didn't get around to a driver's license until well into my twenties. I still don't own a car. I share Reason's pro-technology politics, yet I'm something of a luddite in my personal life.
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Wanna do lunch?
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Crap, I was in the cool 6% until I was forced to accept daughter's hand-me-down cellphone last week.
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I don't know how you guys did it. About 2 months ago I forgot my phone in a classroom when my friend and I were supposed to be going to lunch like we did every Tuesday/Thursday between classes. He went to the parking garage to get the car, and I told him to meet me back at the building we just had class in. My phone wasn't there (someone had picked it up to try to return it before I got back). It took us almost an hour and calls from 3 pay phones to meet back up. It was the most stressful day of my semester.
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Scott Sumner thinks Fukuyama made the best prediction of the past 20 years.