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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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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 for the last 10 decades exploring fears of automation. This introductory post gives a short - but by no means comprehensive …
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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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STUDENTS FLEE FIELD AS COMPUTER 'FAD FADES'
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19th and 20th Century New Years Resolutions
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Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
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Pessimists Archive Newsletter: Before the AI Panic
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A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)
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When Typewriters 'Killed Romance'
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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…
Jan 15
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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…
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…
Jan 8
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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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Predictions about 2023 made in 1830
190 years ago a guy had a nightmare about the 21st Century
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19th and 20th Century New Years Resolutions
Virtues of today - like reading books and cycling - were considered vices in the past.
Dec 31, 2022
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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 it…
Dec 13, 2022
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'Hard Sell is the Word with Home Computers' (1990)
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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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Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
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Louis Anslow
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Pessimists Archive Newsletter: Before the AI Panic
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A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)
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When Typewriters 'Killed Romance'
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