I have noticed an effect similar to Gell-Mann amnesia:
Often you see news articles about new things freaking people out: technology, social changes, products, apps. Sometimes people are freaking out for good reason, and sometimes they're just silly, and you think: there are smart people and dumb people in the world, and the dumb people like to freak out about the wrong stuff.
And then you read about times in the past when people were freaking out about something that we now know to benign, but you easily forget that those might just be the dumb people from the past. Did anyone who was, like, intelligent or wise worry about push buttons? Presumably not.
Often you see news articles about new things freaking people out: technology, social changes, products, apps. Sometimes people are freaking out for good reason, and sometimes they're just silly, and you think: there are smart people and dumb people in the world, and the dumb people like to freak out about the wrong stuff.
And then you read about times in the past when people were freaking out about something that we now know to benign, but you easily forget that those might just be the dumb people from the past. Did anyone who was, like, intelligent or wise worry about push buttons? Presumably not.