TIME magazine is making its strongest case yet that it is now edited by Grampa Simpson. It lists the 50 Worst Inventions, and it’s a cranky, “I like things better back in my day” kind of list. Yeah, there are some good choices here (Ah, poor CueCat, will people ever forget you?). But also it lists – and remember these are the WORST inventions:
Segway: OK, not hugely mainstream. But worst? This is the same list that has hydrogen blimps.
Foursquare: “[T]he next generation of creepy social networking.” That’s what everyone said about the previous generation. And the one before that. You want a worse invention? Try the iron maiden. Or, for that matter, listening to Iron Maiden.
Clippy: OK, Clippy, maybe.
Farmville: Not the greatest game (or whatever it is) ever – but hardly the worst invention of all time. Replace with: Ford Pinto.
TIME, in fact, seems to forget there were crap inventions prior to the 20th century. Obviously, this is a tongue-in-cheek list, but seriously – New Coke was such a bad invention that it deserves mention instead of Mello Yello? As someone posted on Snopes: “Seemed to me like they confused “bad things” with “funny things”.
(Via LR Alumnus Don Day)
