In 2005 I ran across the following page from the NY Times Magazine. It's called the "Year in Ideas", and from the prose describing the article-collection, the magazine ha an equivalent list for every year going back to 2001. The summary from the 2008 article sums things up pretty nicely:
Welcome back to the Year in Ideas issue. For the eighth year in a row, we have compiled an alphabetical digest of ideas, from A to Z (almost), that helped make the previous 12 months, for better or worse, what they were.
The lists are fascinating, and interesting, so here they are (at least back to 2003):
- 2003 Year in Ideas
- 2004 Year in Ideas
- 2005 Year in Ideas
- 2006 Year in Ideas
- 2007 Year in Ideas
- 2008 Year in Ideas
I wonder what 2009's list will contain...