Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Redundant
Erewhon Audiobook Podcast
Archive
About
New
Top
Discussion
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…
Pessimists Archive
and
Louis Anslow
Mar 22
8
Share this post
Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)
The Inspiration for Dune's Butlerian Jidhad
Pessimists Archive
Mar 9
6
3
Share this post
A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Hear Article Reading: DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES
Listen now (10 min) | 1863 Letter to an Editor from Samuel Butler
Pessimists Archive
Mar 9
Share this post
Hear Article Reading: DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
February 2023
When Typewriters 'Killed Romance'
Typewritten love letters were called the most “cold-blooded, mechanical, unromantic production imaginable"
Pessimists Archive
Feb 14
5
Share this post
When Typewriters 'Killed Romance'
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
January 2023
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…
Pessimists Archive
Jan 15
14
Share this post
Pessimists Archive Newsletter: Before the AI Panic
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
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…
Pessimists Archive
Jan 13
1
Share this post
The Prejudice Against Typewritten Letters
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
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…
Pessimists Archive
Jan 8
2
Share this post
When Educators Mourned the Slide Rule
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Kids Will Future Proof Themselves (if we let them)
Banning Smartphones, Social Media and AI Like ChatGPT is Stupid
Pessimists Archive
Jan 5
3
1
Share this post
Kids Will Future Proof Themselves (if we let them)
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Predictions about 2023 made in 1830
190 years ago a guy had a nightmare about the 21st Century
Pessimists Archive
Jan 3
Share this post
Predictions about 2023 made in 1830
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
December 2022
19th and 20th Century New Years Resolutions
Virtues of today - like reading books and cycling - were considered vices in the past.
Pessimists Archive
Dec 31, 2022
7
Share this post
19th and 20th Century New Years Resolutions
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
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…
Pessimists Archive
Dec 13, 2022
2
Share this post
An Ancient Poem Against Sundials (250 B.C.)
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
September 2022
'Hard Sell is the Word with Home Computers' (1990)
Thanks for reading Pessimists Archive Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Pessimists Archive
Sep 29, 2022
Share this post
'Hard Sell is the Word with Home Computers' (1990)
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
