35 Inventions That Were Meant to Help Society But Turned Out to Be Absolutely Terrible

Have you ever seen You’ve Got Mail? I’m always fascinated by the way it shows a big bookstore chain putting a small bookstore out of business—because that was the 1990s, and now, 30 years later, it’s the big bookstore chains that are being put out of business by websites like Amazon.

So, who knows what 30 years from now will hold? What new business model will have come in to put Amazon out of business? Who will disrupt the disruptors? Also, how do I get a guy like Tom Hanks’ character to become my Internet pen pal so we can fall in love in New York City in the spring?