The Sony Walkman is now iconic of the 1980s, eliciting nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of owning music, rather than renting it.| newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
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The Sorrows of Young Werther was blamed for a supposed youth suicide epidemic| newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Not even Einstein was immune from the lump of labor fallacy...| newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
We will be exploring the history of fears about technological unemployment.| newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Long before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky sounded warnings about artificial intelligence, there was Dr.| newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org