The Original Tech Panic

The audiobook explores the history of technological panics, showing how fears about innovations like trains, telegraphs, and the internet were once passionately debated and are now largely forgotten or reclassified as progress. It examines why these fears often targeted the young and were initially supported by experts, highlighting patterns across different eras of technological change. By analyzing the typical cycle from alarm to acceptance, the book predicts when current fears, such as those surrounding artificial intelligence, may subside and explains why this transition period is shrinking over time.