The rapid pace of technological development can be a little frightening: Is texting ruining our communication skills? Is the Internet butchering our ability to think deeply?
As it turns out, these fears are nothing new.
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That’s only the first of many such objections to new technologies from over a century ago collected by Randall Munroe at xkcd.
They’re shockingly similar to modern-day anxieties about smartphones and social media—the hover text even includes a condemnation of the current “disregard for the sanctity of marriage”…from 1883.
