A 1951 pricey computer ad gets recycled to mock AI job-loss panic
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-10-29
Someone shared a 1951 advertisement for an expensive computer to mock today's AI job-loss anxiety, quipping that nobody is actually worried. The decades-old ad is being recycled in AI circles as a wink at how new technologies have always triggered similar panic.
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