Legacy newspapers inflated a handful of complaints into "mass panic" to blunt radio’s rise and defend their influence.

Decades before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky raised alarms, the computer scientist warned AI could steal jobs and outsmart humans.

Before completion for the 1889 World’s Fair, the Eiffel Tower project was treated by some as an industrialist "Tower of Babel."

Today, the Sony Walkman inspires nostalgia, but in the 1980s, it was feared as a dangerous device that could disconnect society.

“I, Robot” is a convincing allegory in favor of embracing AI innovation rather than over-regulating, centralizing, and stifling it.

Einstein blamed automation for the widespread unemployment of the Great Depression, but his reasoning was based on a false premise.

Decades before states started banning lab-grown meat, manufactured ice was the "unnatural" alternative under attack.

Mistakes made by the US government 100 years ago could help us determine the best way to regulate AI-manipulated images and videos today.

Officials' warnings about the impact of video games on kids were never proven true. They may be making the same mistake with social media.

Threatened by their low cost, traditional telephone companies tried to get long-distance internet phone services banned in the 1990s.