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Does Technology Separate Us?
Technologies that Broke Community
Air Conditioning
Air Conditioning Helped Elect Ronald Reagan President
AC triggered a mass migration of older, more conservative voters to Sun Belt states that had previously been too hot and humid for many people to tolerate
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AC triggered a mass migration of older, more conservative voters to Sun Belt states that had previously been too hot and humid for many people to tolerate
Adjacent Possible (sbj’s Substack)
Law of Unintended Consequences
Lou Montulli
The Printing Press Led to the Invention of the Microscope and Telescope
Children
Can we get better at anticipating the unintended consequences of new technology?
Reading Revealed to a Meaningful Subset of the Population that They Were Farsighted and Thus Needed Spectacles, Which Created a New Industry of Lensmakers, Who Then Started Experimenting with Other Uses for Glass Lenses