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Modern Hell #28: Human Machines

Modern Hell #28: Human Machines

We create technology to do our jobs, but end up working more – and more like machines

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Colin Horgan
Mar 31, 2023
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This week in my internet travels, I was trying to find a good example of people fearing the machines they made. The dawn of the 1900s came to mind, as it has so often over the past few years.1 The period between the late 1890s and 1914, before the world descended into a chaos previously unimagined, had a similar vibe as …

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