More Ideas of the Year
From selfie sticks and wristwatches and to kale and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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Once-Discredited Ideas Now Staging Comebacks
> Dumbphones
> Sleeping
> Measles
> Tebow
> Spam
> Wristwatches
> Pluto
Least Important Most-Talked-About Ideas
> “The Dress”
> Deflategate
> The Keystone Pipeline
> Elizabeth Warren
Least Harmless Innocuous-Sounding Ideas
> Relatability
> The Food Babe
> Delaware
> “Pension smoothing”
Ideas That Are Kind of Embarrassing, but That We Like Anyway
> Vines
> Hypoallergenic cats
> Vines of hypoallergenic cats
> Rex Ryan
> Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ideas That Have Outlived Their Usefulness
> Annual physicals
> The Iowa caucuses
> Kale
> House of Cards
> Celebrity chefs
> Coastal property
Innovations We Might Seriously Regret
> Marijuana bakeries
> Shareholder activism
> “Explainer journalism”
> Selfie sticks
> Genome editing
Terms We’d Like to Retire
> Manspreading
> Free-range parenting
> Going viral
> Vertically integrated digital-media company
> Superfood
> Hipster
> The Internet of Things
Newly Conventional Ideas That Were Once Unthinkable
> Getting the news from Facebook
> NFL players worried about concussions
> Rand Paul for President
> A first gent
Ideas We Think We Like—but the Jury’s Still Out
> Police body cameras
> Self-driving cars
> Serial
> Starbucks delivery
> Amazon drones
> The sharing economy
Image credits: Tebow: Elise Amendola/AP; Warren: Timothy D. Easley/AP; Kimmy Schmidt: Eric Liebowitz/Netflix; Food Babe: Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg/Getty; Selfie: Andy Wong/AP; Fieri: Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision/AP; Hipster: Rich Fury/Invision/AP; Car: Tony Avelar/AP; Clinton: John Shearer/Invision/AP