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5 Diseases Folks Made Up to Scare You Off New Tech

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Cracked Railway spine can warp your mind! And sewing machines can warp your soul! They said video games would kill us with hypertension. They said social media would kill us with depression. They said self-driving cars would kill us with combustion. Based on what we’ve seen, they were right on all counts. But we shouldn’t be so quick to believe their warnings. New inventions have always provoked fear from the timid, who swear technology will riddle our bodies with sickness. Sometimes, they proposed these diseases because they were seriously confused about the invention’s real effects. Other times, they knew the disease wasn’t real, and they just wanted to quash the tech for their own vile reasons. 

Either way, until the public learned the truth, they remained paranoid about such very serious medical conditions as… Continue reading

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