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title: Pessimists Archive jogs our collective memory about hysteria, technophobia and moral panic
url: https://pessimistsarchive.org/
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position: 2
date: 2025-10-07
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retrieved: 2026-11-09
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author: /people/justin-hall.person.md
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👎 **[Pessimists Archive jogs our collective memory about hysteria, technophobia and moral panic.](https://pessimistsarchive.org/)** We were freaking out about phones in 1870. We said women looked at themselves in mirrors too much in 1885. We thought cars were destroying the world in 1896.