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The Prejudice Against Typewritten Letters
The article "The Typewriter in Social Correspondence" published in 1898, argues that the use of typewriters for personal correspondence will become more accepted in the future, just as the use of gummed envelopes did in the past. The writer acknowledges that some people mayβ¦
Jan 13
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When Educators Mourned the Slide Rule
This article - written in 1984 - discusses the decline in popularity of the slide rule and its replacement by electronic calculators and computers. The article highlights the sentiment of regret among some teachers, technicians, and scientists at the slide rule's decline, as itβ¦
Jan 8
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Pessimists Archive Newsletter: Before the AI Panic
π Breaking the Rules Concern about Chat-GPT kicked off the year with NYC School District blocking it on school computers. This brought to mind protests from teachers in the past about computers, calculators, Wikipedia and Google. The article above -
Jan 15
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Kids Will Future Proof Themselves (if we let them)
Banning Smartphones, Social Media and AI Like ChatGPT is Stupid
Jan 5
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190 years ago a guy had a nightmare about the 21st Century
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Virtues of today - like reading books and cycling - were considered vices in the past.
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An Ancient Poem Against Sundials (250 B.C.)
A recent episode of the Ezra Klein Show about our relationship to time mentioned an ancient quote lamenting sun dials. After some Googling, we found itβ¦
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'Hard Sell is the Word with Home Computers' (1990)
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The Queens Coronation was Almost Banned From TV
How the British public overturned a live television ban on Queen Elizabeth's 1953 Coronation.
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Portraits Were Just Expensive Selfies
In the process of exploring reactions to the advent and development of photography, we came across a fascinating article about βsun picturesβ - an earlyβ¦
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