
David Michael Newstead | The Philosophy of Shaving
It’s entertaining to look back at predictions and plans for the future. In the 1992 presidential election, Bill Clinton and Al Gore released a book called Putting People First: How We Can All Change America. I flipped through an old copy in a little free library and among all their bold campaign promises from back then was this one:
Create a national information network to link every home, business, lab, classroom, and library by the year 2015.
Well, good news. We did it! 2015 seems comically distant from 1992 in almost every way. Luckily, the internet arrived ahead of schedule and probably a little different than people would have expected. Still, it’s a piece of presidential history I think about every now and then, when a better world seemed as simple as connecting everyone.
Published on October 25, 2024 09:01