{"id":114,"date":"2007-12-11T20:50:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/modern-day-newsreel_year-in-ideas\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:18","slug":"modern-day-newsreel_year-in-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/modern-day-newsreel_year-in-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern-Day Newsreel of Forward-Thinking Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" id=\"image115\" alt=\"drawing-from-new-sources.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drawing-from-new-sources.jpg\" \/>This week is the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/indexes\/2007\/12\/08\/magazine\/\">&#8220;Year in Ideas&#8221; issue<\/a> from The New York Times Magazine (12\/9\/2007). As a companion to the 70 &#8220;curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations,&#8221; the magazine&#8217;s web site also produced an animation, &#8220;<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/nytimes.feedroom.com\/?fr_story=3a9e514db4759318dac57e8e5fd5462862c424ed\">Drawing From New Sources<\/span>.&#8221; The 2-minute piece, briskly narrated and clearly summarized, plays out like a modern-day newsreel.<\/p>\n<p>One especially forward-thinking message in the piece, all of which focuses on saving and generating energy, is how package deliverer U.P.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/09\/magazine\/09left-handturn.html?ref=magazine\">conserves 3 million gallons of gas<\/a> by &#8220;removing left-hand turns from its operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/nyt_posts_year_in_ideas_ups_avoids_left_turns_8366.asp\">Core77<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the annual &#8220;Year in Ideas&#8221; issue from The New York Times Magazine (12\/9\/2007). As a companion to the 70 &#8220;curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations,&#8221; the magazine&#8217;s web site also produced an animation, &#8220;Drawing From New Sources.&#8221; The 2-minute piece, briskly narrated and clearly summarized, plays out like a modern-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6310,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}