The storied publication created a quarantined space to experiment with future technologies. More than 165 years ago, the literary greats of American writing—including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Melville—assembled to cosign a boisterous manifesto promising to lead the discourse on literature, art, and politics in an initiative that would become The Atlantic.Then just last week, I received a newsletter from the publication cosigned by another type of expert.