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Louis Anslow

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Louis Anslow is the author of Pessimists Archive, a project to jog our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia, and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas, and trends.

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Is the disruption caused by AI art actually new, or does it just feel new?

From paint in tubes to typewriters to photography to digital art, the history of creativity is a history of disruptive technologies.

Louis Anslow

History

Today, people fear Twitter. In the 1850s, they feared telegrams

Telegrams elicited the exact same concerns, including the spread of misinformation, “addiction” among youth, censorship, and impersonation.

Louis Anslow

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