When triumphalists fail, they fail triumphantly

Progress turns everyone into a nostalgistsooner or later. You just have to wait for your own particular trigger to come along — the new thing that threatens theold thing you love.

David Weinberger has afunny-sadarticleinThe Atlantic today.Called “The Internet That Was (and Still Could Be),” it’s a tortured piece, mixing memory and desire, that callsto mind some lines from agreat old Buzzcocks tune:

About the future I only can reminisce
For what I’ve had is what I’ll never get
And although th...