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Stuff people was scared about when they was invented

Trains,

When the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in 1825, people feared the worst: the human body, surely, wasn't made to travel at incredible speeds of 30 miles per hour. People genuinely believed that going that quickly would kill you in gruesome ways, such as your body melting.

Telephones,

The telephone wasn't greeted with universal enthusiasm. Some elderly people feared that touching it would give them electric shocks, while men worried that their wives would waste too much time gossiping. In Sweden, preachers said the phone was the instrument of the Devil and phone lines were stolen or sabotaged; others feared that the lines were conduits for evil spirits. The invention of telesales would prove them right.

Television,

We've all been told to sit further away from the TV for fear of ruining our eyes, but it turns out that there's fire behind that smoke: in the late 1960s General Electric shipped faulty television sets that emitted dangerous X-rays and officials warned against sitting too close as a result. GE fixed the problem, but the scare lived on.

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https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/12-technologies...




Let me add to you list of inventions people were scared about when they were invented:

- Nuclear weapons

- Bio-engineering viruses

Good thing we stopped worrying about these technologies and now everybody is allowed to do them in their kitchen if they wish.


they knew those were obviously dangerous when they was invented, would a better list be:

Arsenic in everything eg coloring wallpaper

radiation

asbestos

leaded gas


Excuse me? It's called "gain of function research" and if you have a problem with it, you are ANTI SCIENCE


There are counter points to this - DDT, Gatling Gun (Inventor thought it would reduce deaths, because you'd need less soldiers), Thalidomide.


So...nobody should ever be concerned about the effects of new technologies? Ever?




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