Technology-Driven Moral Panics – Interactive Timeline
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From Ancient Greece to the age of AI: how societies have worried new inventions would erode morality, upend jobs, or doom humanity.
Explore how societies—from Ancient Greece to the AI age—worried how new inventions would erode morality, upend jobs, or doom humanity. Created and maintained by Andrew Maynard, professor at Arizona State University and director of the Future of Being Human initiative. Search keywords c. 370 BCE – Writing (Alphabet) Ancient Greece – Decline of Memory and Understanding Two and a half thousand years before anyone worried about smartphones rotting kids' brains, Socrates had already reached the same conclusion about writing. The argument turns up in Phaedrus, a philosophical dialogue written…
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