Comments on: Fear of New Technology http://neoacademic.com/2010/02/24/fear-of-new-technology/ technology, education and training research from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist in the ivory tower Sat, 04 May 2013 15:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Libby's Blog http://neoacademic.com/2010/02/24/fear-of-new-technology/#comment-21658 Libby's Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:42:45 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=570#comment-21658 [...] quote, taken from the article “Fear of New Technology” written by Richard N. Landers says it all. Its sentiments are right up there with, “If man were meant to fly, he’d have [...]

]]> By: Shawna http://neoacademic.com/2010/02/24/fear-of-new-technology/#comment-1032 Shawna Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:44:40 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=570#comment-1032 I like how that quote undercuts the “novelty” thesis being shoved around lately: that the information overload that we’re experiencing is somehow new in human history. I’m teaching Wells’ The Time Machine right now, and I’m trying to show my students how the Victorians (with improvements in cheap newsprint/ink and the postal service, inventions like wireless telegraphy and the telephone, and transportation technologies like the railway and the subway) felt exactly like we do. Completely overloaded with information. Yes, it feels like a break with the past, but people have felt like that before, and we should learn from their experiences about how we can best deal with it.

Kind of off-topic, but it’s related.

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