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Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
Welcome to REDUNDANT, a project by Pessimists Archive exploring the history of fears about technological unemployment. We will be publishing 10 posts…
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Remember Typewriter Licenses?
Imagine a world where you must seek permission from the government to own a potentially dangerous weapon - not a firearm, not an explosive, but a tool…
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Is AI Fear this Century’s Overpopulation Scare?
“Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come.” Reading this in 2023, you could be forgiven for thinking these words came from an artificial…
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STUDENTS FLEE FIELD AS COMPUTER 'FAD FADES'
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19th and 20th Century New Years Resolutions
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A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)
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A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)
The Inspiration for Dune's Butlerian Jidhad
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Hear Article Reading: DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES
Listen now (10 min) | 1863 Letter to an Editor from Samuel Butler
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When Typewriters 'Killed Romance'
Typewritten love letters were called the most “cold-blooded, mechanical, unromantic production imaginable"
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Pessimists Archive Newsletter: Before the AI Panic
📏 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…
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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…
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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…
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Kids Will Future Proof Themselves (if we let them)
Banning Smartphones, Social Media and AI Like ChatGPT is Stupid
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