The Atlantic: 150 Years of Technology and Innovation?

True, the Atlantic Monthly once had a truly rocking Web site (now it's just rocking, fair and simple), but when you think of magazines that cover technology and innovation, does the Atlantic leap to mind? Most likely, no. So imagine my surprise and delight when I got an email invitation to the forthcoming Day of Ideas tour.

This edition of the invitation -- I've received at least one other to date -- focuses on technology and innovation... and it's a doozy. As well as a reminder of how relevant the Atlantic can be. Just check out this run of back articles:

• Introduction by James Fallows
  
• The Age of Photography (1859)
  
• A Telephonic Conversation (1880)
  
• The New Talking Machines (1889)
  
• Life As We Know It (1924)
  
• Television and Radio (1937)
  
• As We May Think (1945)
  
• Moving Toward the Clonal Man (1971)
  
• Living with a Computer (1982)
  

That's a pretty kick-ass roundup of articles worth reading and thinking about. Here's to the next 150 years!