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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts) Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:12 AM Dec 2013

Illustrated timeline of anti-fun moral panics

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/30/illustrated-timeline-of-anti-f.html

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Illustrated timeline of anti-fun moral panics (Original Post) Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 OP

Impressive! silverweb Dec 2013 #1

I love this! 1000words Dec 2013 #2

Ha! I actually have a copy of "Computer Power and Human Reason" friendly_iconoclast Dec 2013 #4

I can't even figure out what possible use SIRI has Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #13

Its all evolution. flying rabbit Dec 2013 #3

Cool! Although... cyberswede Dec 2013 #5

What, no penny dreadfuls, comic books, jazz, swing, rock, or video games? X_Digger Dec 2013 #6

I know people who STILL have zero interest in computers. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2013 #7

And yet whose lives are inextricably linked to computers Pretzel_Warrior Dec 2013 #9

I'm one of them! Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #10

Now it's smart phones and social media that will be the ruin of us Pretzel_Warrior Dec 2013 #8

Know what's really anti-fun? BainsBane Dec 2013 #11

I hear ya. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #12

silverweb

(16,402 posts)

1. Impressive!

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:22 AM

Dec 2013

1000words

(7,051 posts)

2. I love this!

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:27 AM

Dec 2013

Thanks for posting.

Rec

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)

4. Ha! I actually have a copy of "Computer Power and Human Reason"

Reply to 1000words (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:31 AM

Dec 2013

The thing I remember most is Weizenbaum complaining about voice control software
because it might have military uses...

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

13. I can't even figure out what possible use SIRI has

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 03:53 AM

Dec 2013

with the exception of invariably coming on when my phone is in my pocket and I'm tying my shoes, as if I had a female HAL in my underwear.

flying rabbit

(4,634 posts)

3. Its all evolution.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:29 AM

Dec 2013

That's what we do; what with the opposable thumbs, prefrontal cortex and all.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

5. Cool! Although...

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:33 AM

Dec 2013

television did hurt radio, conversation, reading, and the patterns of family living, imo.

And don't get me started on incredibly frightful jazz!

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)

6. What, no penny dreadfuls, comic books, jazz, swing, rock, or video games?

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:42 AM

Dec 2013

tsk tsk tsk

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

7. I know people who STILL have zero interest in computers.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 01:17 AM

Dec 2013

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)

9. And yet whose lives are inextricably linked to computers

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 01:27 AM

Dec 2013

Whether they choose to acknowledge it or not.

Have a late model car? Computer.
Use an ATM? Computer?
Fly commercially? Many computers.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

10. I'm one of them!

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 01:38 AM

Dec 2013

I refuse to touch em

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)

8. Now it's smart phones and social media that will be the ruin of us

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 01:25 AM

Dec 2013

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)

11. Know what's really anti-fun?

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:03 AM

Dec 2013

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Having old eyes that leaves me unable to read small print like this, even on the linked page.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

12. I hear ya.

Reply to BainsBane (Reply #11)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:57 AM

Dec 2013

Although under some circumstances you should be able to zoom in on the image. Depends on how you're looking at it.

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