The AI world loves 'The Railway Journey' so much that new copies now cost $250+
dbreunig · x · 2026-09-19
dbreunig recommends Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey — on how railroads industrialized time and space in the 19th century — as essential reading for contextualizing AI anxieties. He's recommended it so often that the only new copies on Amazon now list for $250+, so grab it used while you can.
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