THE WORST IDEAS WE’VE EVER HAD

The worst ideas we’ve ever had

History is replete with terrible ideas: For every Gutenberg press there is a Smell-O-Vision, and for every steam engine there is a collateralized debt obligation. Some caught on. Others, thankfully, haven’t. Filling an airship with flammable gas: What could go wrong? Up until the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, no-one seemed to take issue with sending…