The Worst Invention of All Time?

We love to mind each other’s business. And, unlike our benighted ancestors of a hundred years ago, we have just the tool to do it. I’m holding it in my hand, and most of you have it in yours.

Atlanta , GA

May 14, 2026

Has any century started worse than this one?

It’s a question typical of our short-sighted, self-centered, attention-deprived age. The answer seems obvious, and can be sought by looking a hundred years into the rearview mirror.

There we see… closer than they appear… Theodore Roosevelt, the San Francisco Earthquake, the Federal Reser…