1970
“Privacy, always held [as] an American birthright, is being nibbled away steadily,” claimed Newsweek, as the rise of technology ushered in “all the debatable charms of wire-taps, in-depth questionnaires and other up-to-date invaders of the body private.” All this left Americans wondering if “we may end up with 1984 long before we actually get there.” Nearly half a century later in the electronic age of social media, oversharing and data breaches, it begs the question if there’s anything left to be nibbled away.
1947
From the Missouri River to the Nevada deserts, where wheat chaff covered clothes and filled lungs, the clatter of giant combines echoed across 150,000 bustling farms 14 hours a day. “It’s harvest time in the wheat belt,” wrote Newsweek, and “now more than ever, America…
