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Louis Anslow
Louis Anslow is curator of the Pessimists Archive, a project to educate people on and archive the history of technophobia and moral panics.
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Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
AI helped create films like "Jurassic Park" and "A.I.", so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn't worry about losing their jobs.
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
Televising the coronation was thought to be an affront to the dignity of the event.
Moral panics about the content of children's cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
In the early 1900s, some Americans feared that teddy bears would not instill maternal instincts in girls, thereby causing "race suicide."
Chess was once blamed for triggering mental health problems, including suicide and even murder. Today, the same is said of video games.