Waiting used to be built into ordinary life. Information traveled on paper, entertainment followed schedules, photos hid inside undeveloped film, and even getting online could occupy the household telephone. These experiences did not disappear overnight, but for Americans born in the late 1990s or later, many were already becoming optional during childhood.
Tom Waits is the “boho hobo” singer-songwriter whose gravelly voice and gritty lifestyle have left both fans and critics divided.
From Caligula and Abraham Lincoln to Al Capone and Richard Nixon, these famous historical figures were stuck with nicknames they disliked, mocked, resisted, or simply could never escape.
Wealthy eccentrics have enough money to turn their personal obsession into somebody else's very real problem.
The 1990s home was crowded with single-purpose technology. One object answered the phone, another stored numbers, another played movies, and another held road-trip directions. Those jobs did not vanish; phones, broadband, flat screens, streaming, and digital storage absorbed them. The result is a surprising amount of once-normal household clutter that now looks like museum material.
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