I know, I know, a non-Cubs-related entry?!
From Datacloud, I borrow the following link which captured my interest for a while: USNews.com is asking people to vote for the most important Documents that Shaped America. They offer a list of 100, allowing you to vote for 10. As Johndan notes, the chronology stops in 1965, with the Voting Rights Act.
What's interesting to me about this isn't necessarily the question of whether any documents from the last 40 years qualify, although that's a question worth asking. Rather, I'm curious about the reverse implication, the idea that America has been shaped by documents. How much longer will that really be the case? The list already stretches some media boundaries by including a transcript of John Glenn's communication and an aerial photograph of Cuban missiles. Why not the Watergate tapes? Or the video of the Challenger explosion? Elvis and/or the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show? The front page of the first edition of USA Today? How about the Xerox/Macintosh/Windows GUI?
It would be an even more interesting list to me, I think, with the title "Interfaces that Shaped America."
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