For What Will The Oughties Be Remembered?

“Many years from now, when this decade has been picked-over and pulverized and smoothed out, defined by a few inevitably glib reference points and given its final shape, when it has been reinvented and remembered as something simpler (something we would not recognize), when it has been vivisected and stripped of everything that meant anything these past 10 years, how will this first decade of the 21st century be remembered?”