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Amusing that adults now treat flip phones and iPod as virtues rather than vices.
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Pessimists Archive
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Fear of new things in the past. Exploring pessimism and panic through the ages. Curated by @louisanslow - Substack:
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Nobody is skeptical of autonomous elevators because nobody alive today was even around to see a human elevator operator in real life before the last one got laid off. Automation is far safer.
Cern Basher@CernBasher
Comedians preparing the public for autonomous vehicles: “I’m so excited for self-driving cars…”
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20 years ago today.
Amusing that adults now treat flip phones and iPod as virtues rather than vices.
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In 1979, McDonald’s began removing its infamous spoon-shaped coffee stirrers from the company's U.S. restaurants, after it was revealed that the ‘McSpoon’ was frequently used to measure and inhale cocaine, as well as phenylcyclohexyl piperidine (PCP)
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@PessimistsArc As people get older, they have increasing difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality.
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The Kids-These-Days Effect
Every generation thinks the younger generation is going to the dogs - a tendency that traces back to at least 624 BCE. A fascinating study explores where this perception comes from, and finds two main culprits.
[Link below.]
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From Socrates to social media, the charge of "corrupting the youth" has always been the go-to justification for censorship.
Our new piece in @WSJ on why the global rush to ban kids from social media risks building surveillance infrastructure that threatens everyone's freedoms.
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@onlyfootnotes Too often fails to learn from history and so too often focuses on wrong thing.
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how technology affects our society is a reasonable concern and a public discussion worth having
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20 years ago today. Amusing that adults now treat flip phones and iPod as virtues rather than vices.
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I've always preferred the "techno-solutionist" label instead of "techno-optimist" since reading @jasoncrawford's piece: technologyreview.com/2021/07/13/102…
We can't just sit idly by and believe things will get better in the future because they have in the past (they might not!).
We have to proactively identify problems and engineer targeted solutions to fix them.
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"A federal jury will be asked to consider whether a Florida teenager who threatened to ''finish what begun'' at Columbine High School did so because of an addiction to the Internet." (2000)
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In the 90s Phil Zimmermann released PGP, software that gave ordinary people the ability to communicate privately. The U.S. government investigated him for allegedly exporting munitions.
The 1st Crypto War had begun.
Fast forward to today, and the war against privacy rages on.
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Will people avoiding computer science end up looking like these 1987 studies?
“Five years ago, computers looked like they were the land of good money and easy opportunity”
Aaron Levie@levie
Jevons paradox is happening in real time. Companies, especially outside of tech, are realizing that they can now afford to take on software projects that they wouldn’t have been able to tackle before because now AI lets them do so. We’re going to start to use software for all new things in the economy because it’s incrementally cheaper to produce. Marketing teams at big companies will have engineers helping to automate workflows. Engineers in life sciences and healthcare will automate research. Small businesses will hire engineers for the first to build better digital experiences. And as long as AI agents still require a human who understands what to prompt, how to review when an agent goes off the rails, how it guide back, how to maintain the system that was built, how to fix the ongoing bugs, and more, we will still have humans managing these agents. This is why all the advice you get of not going into engineering is wrong. The world is going to increasingly be made up of software, and the people that understand it best will be in a strong economic position. This will happen in other roles as well where output goes up and demand increases.
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“Why quarrel about comic books when radio programs are so bad? Is the query of a couple hundred letters.”
“What are effects of radio addiction on our young ones?” (1949) newspapers.com/article/the-sa…
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