Don't Fear the Bot
Don't Fear the Bot: Why AI Mastery is Your Next Essential Skill (And What Happens If You Ignore It)Remember hearing about when people thought electricity would kill them in their sleep?In the 1880s, when electric lights first flickered on in city streets, people called them "devil's fire" and "witch's light". Stories spread that spirits were trapped in wires, waiting to burst out as fire and death. The New York Tribune reported in 1889 that citizens genuinely believed that "any metallic object—a
Remember hearing about when people thought electricity would kill them in their sleep?
In the 1880s, when electric lights first flickered on in city streets, people called them "devil's fire" and "witch's light". Stories spread that spirits were trapped in wires, waiting to burst out as fire and death. The New York Tribune reported in 1889 that citizens genuinely believed that "any metallic object—a doorknob, a railing, a gas fixture—might at any moment become the medium of death". Thomas Edison himself, in a ruthless campaign against his competitor's alternating current system, publicly electrocuted animals to prove how "dangerous" this new technology was.
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