what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
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OpenAI accepts files/documents now.
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In 1923 this would be gibberish.
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I miss the niche community "sentences that would have made no sense fifteen years ago."
Like "Homestuck stans dox Twitter influencer @dril."
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The idea of a thinking machine/mechanical brain would be more than enough to wow them
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Yes. Realistic working computers were still a fantasy. So was solid state electronics and continuing miniaturisation.
But they might feel like plausible future space magic like flying cars.
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