{"id":163904,"date":"2023-05-15T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/11-examples-of-fear-and-suspicion-of-new-technology"},"modified":"2023-05-15T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:22:44","slug":"11-examples-of-fear-and-suspicion-of-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/11-examples-of-fear-and-suspicion-of-new-technology","title":{"rendered":"11 Examples of Fear and Suspicion Of New Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/11-examples-of-fear-and-suspicion-of-new-technology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New communications technologies don\u2019t come with user\u2019s manuals. They are primitive, while old tech is refined. So critics attack. The critic\u2019s job is easier than the practitioner\u2019s: they score with the fearful by comparing the infancy of the new medium with the perfected medium it threatens. But of course, the practitioner wins. In the end, we always assimilate to the new technology.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 11 examples of fear and suspicion of new technology, spanning the history of communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New communications technologies don\u2019t come with user\u2019s manuals. They are primitive, while old tech is refined. So critics attack. The critic\u2019s job is easier than the practitioner\u2019s: they score with the fearful by comparing the infancy of the new medium with the perfected medium it threatens. But of course, the practitioner wins. In the end, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}