Wearing A Walkman Was Illegal
Build For Tomorrow
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Introduction
This is the first episode of pessimist's archive. In each episode, we'll revisit the moment that a new technology totally freaked people out. We'll try to understand what was going on, why the fear, and why didn't we learn anything from it? And so we begin with a technology that paved the way for what you're probably doing right now. The best anecdote fear of the new is looking back at fear of the old.
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