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We explore the forgotten 1995 panic about 'SATAN' - software that automated finding software security vulnerabilities.
Pessimists Archive
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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:
Joined October 2015
- 1798: First Vaccination Developed 💉 1808 1818 1828 1838 1848 1858 1868 1878 1888 1898 1908 🕰 223 YEARS 🕰 1918 1928 1938 1948 1958 1968 1978 1988 1998 2008 2018 2021: “I am going to wait and see!” 🤓☝️
- Germany’s anti-nuclear power stance will be seen as one of the biggest geopolitical blunders of the 21st century. (clipping 2011)
- 2020: “Too much phone” 1985: “Too much gaming” 1950: “Too many comics” 1863: “Too much reading”
- 📺 1983 debate about home PC, with comparisons to hula hoop fad. Guy on right says they’ll go mainstream “when we have several million machines interconnected” (the internet!) Guy on left dismisses prediction: “THAT WON’T WORK”
- Regis dismisses the ‘iPod Phone’ hours before Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone
00:00 - 2024: Jon Stewart asks head of FTC how BigTech was allowed to get so big 2012: Jon Stewart laughs at Facebook for buying ‘lame’ app called Instagram
BREAKING: Republicans Confirm Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorist to Run Nation's Health Systems Details: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…- 2017: Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid? 2008: Is Google Making Us Stupid? 1884: Are Books Making Us Stupid?
- In 1961 it was predicted that by 1971 most unskilled jobs would be gone.
00:55Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years - Things blamed on radio (From 1920s to 1940s) - Bad economy - Poor grades - Robbery - Dead birds - Dirigible explosions - Broken windows - Fights - Rain - Snow - Drought - Gun deaths - Bad skin - Jail breaks - Unemployment of blind - Blue, green and pink water
00:00 - Response Alexander Graham Bell received when trying to sell his telephone patent to a telegraph company for $100,000
