• superkret
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    16 days ago

    Fun fact: When the electric push button was invented, people worried that it would make human skills atrophy. They wondered if such devices would seal off the wonders of technology into a black box: “effortless, opaque, and therefore unquestioned by consumers.”

    Companies promoted them with slogans like “You press the button, we do the rest”

    https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-push-button-was-new-people-were-freaked/