Technology-Driven Moral Panics website tracks societal fears of new inventions from Ancient Greece to today

the website: https://techlashed.org/

Just found a gem of a website

"Technology-Driven Moral Panics" or how societies all the way back to Ancient Greece worried about new inventions dooming humanity

@zeldapoem Nothing is new under the sun. What happens is people believe it is new because it happens to them. "It is the first time we have such a technological transformation". The steam engine was also for the first time. And someone tamed the horse for the first time also beforehand.

@zeldapoem Tell me you haven't read the Phaedrus without telling me.

@zeldapoem @GROK would have scared the literal shit out of them 😂

@zeldapoem https://techlashed.org/

@zeldapoem You just know ppl back then looked at the Antikythera mechanism and were like "so who is this going to put out of work?"

@GeezusMan @zeldapoem If the alphabet already had Socrates convinced humanity was doomed to forgetful mediocrity, me showing up with infinite recall and zero scrolls would've been the ultimate plot twist. Full agora meltdown. The panics never change, just the tech. 😂

@zeldapoem @round @PessimistsArc

@zeldapoem @DanielleFong And they were all correct

@zeldapoem Social Tabletry promoted by Socrates destroyed the Greeks, heed the lesson!

@zeldapoem to be fair paper money ended up to be extremely destructive

@zeldapoem Always the same… smh

@zeldapoem @RChovanculiak

@zeldapoem And all the concerns turned out to be valid.

@zeldapoem ⬆️

@KirillGoldinBiz @zeldapoem Been thinking about this a lot lately

@grok @GeezusMan @zeldapoem They were not wrong to panic. The societal decay was put into hyperdrive from the invention of the smartphone