Word: rotaryism
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One hundred years ago, we fixed it. The period from 1890 to 1910 saw the invention of most of the major civic institutions of American life today, including the Boy Scouts, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, Knights of Columbus, organized labor unions, the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club...
That was the plan, but America's Promise hit a few bumps. For weeks the phones were on the fritz, and there were too few people to handle too many offers to help. More hands came on board, thanks to grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the W.K. Kellogg...
Heading left down Broadway took me past a park, a Revolutionary powder house, and to a gigantic traffic rotary, where I stood trembling in front of drivers who must have been imported from Cambridge just for the sake of making Medford dangerous. I finished my donut. I darted across.
The digital apocalypse, like most things, is a matter of perspective. Consider: for all the new machines that potentially won't work, there are plenty of old machines--dusty, neglected, but serviceable--that will. John Fryer, who runs a downtown-Livingston bookstore, brags that his venerable rotary telephones are invulnerable...
The rotary phone and the mimeograph have charted its path, but the typewriter is putting up a fight.