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43. Technology that People Feared

Shit You Don't Learn in School

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How Innovation Happens and How People Perceive It

Every major invention had some sort of fear around it. People thought that teddy bears were a social menace, an aiter and an abetter of race suicide. Business men tried to stop answering machines from disrupting the way business was done. It's interesting to look several decades or even centuries back and see people had the same fears about very different technologies.

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