“A fresh layer of snow blanketed the ground on the night of Dec. 31, 1967, and revelers in Times Square and Central Park seemed to look to the future with some hope. ‘World Bids Adieu to a Violent Year’ was the Jan. 1 headline in The New York Times.” As we now know, 1968 would offer no respite from the violence or the relentless news pace. But this was before mobile devices. The NYT looks back at the year and wonders, what if they’d had phones vibrating with modern news alerts? (Someday, they’ll do an article looking back at what the past year of news alerts did to us…)