Silly Ideas Whose Time Has Come

As an offshoot of the July/August Atlantic Monthly article The 11 1/2 Biggest Ideas of the Year, may I present the much more amusing Ideas Whose Time Has Come? The article is subtitled: ONCE-REPUDIATED IDEAS STAGING COMEBACKS. I especially enjoy the section on:

INNOVATIONS WE MIGHT SERIOUSLY REGRET

■ Mortgage-backed securities

■ High-definition pornography

■ The Hadron supercollider

■ Dubai

■ Non-Communist Russia

■ The Wendy’s Baconator sandwich