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The Moon Landing was Opposed by Majority of US
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the moon landing. In retrospect it has almost unanimous support and adoration in the US: pleasing the left as an…
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STUDENTS FLEE FIELD AS COMPUTER 'FAD FADES'
Aug 21, 2021
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Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
Mar 22
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The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener
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Louis Anslow
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When the Walkman was Banned
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Louis Anslow
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When the Mac 'Ruined' Writing
🪶 Quills were once the default writing tool, when pens rose to prominence their impact on writing would be a hot debate in the literary world, one that…
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Telegraph Doomers of the 19th Century - Part 1
Like the web, telegraphy brought rapid changes in society along with very familiar anxieties and criticisms.
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Louis Anslow
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Photocopiers Terrified the Publishing World
“What Hath Xerox Wrought” asked a 1976 Time Magazine headline, the proceeding article prompted readers to imagine if: “some inventive and omnipotent god…
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When the Walkman was Banned
Surrendering an entire sensory input to wearable technology has always elicited strong responses: from Google Glass, to Oculus Rift and most recently…
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The Unabomber was an AI Doomer (Obviously)
Ted Kaczynski is dead. In this moment of hysteria about AI And its impact on civilisation, it is inevitable that debates about the merits of the…
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Louis Anslow
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Art Has Always Been Artificial
From paint in tubes to typewriters to photography to digital art, the history of creativity is a history of disruptive technologies.
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The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener
Long before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky sounded warnings about artificial intelligence, there was Dr. Norbert Wiener in the 1950s and 60s…
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Louis Anslow
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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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