Museum visit laments: talks about industrial history now fixate only on job losses and inequality
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-10
An AI practitioner shares a visit to the Baltimore Industry Museum: despite its remarkable history of pioneering canned food, building a railroad, and creating cheap umbrellas, student discussions centered entirely on downsides—who lost jobs, what inequality resulted. The author argues this social mentality about technology needs fixing.
A viewpoint post relevant to how society frames the employment impact of AI and automation.
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