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Pessimists Archive
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Last discussed Oct 3, 2026
Twitter/X account and project that archives historical moral panics and fears about new technologies.
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Used for: Historical perspective on fear-mongering about new technology
Praised: Documents historical examples of tech panic, such as the printing press, nove...
"One of my favorite Twitter handles is the Pessimists Archive, where they show... and this is just quoting Pessimists Archive, you should all follow it... The Pessimists Archive has all these news articles that talk about how the novel and computer..."
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"There's this great website called Pessimist Archive where these guys go back and they find all these newspaper articles that are contemporaneous to these things."
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