1985 Whole Earth Review cover: "Computers as Poison" mirrors today's AI debates
beffjezos · x · 2026-11-10
A resurfaced January 1985 Whole Earth Review cover reads "Computers as Poison — All panaceas become poison," with Art Kleiner's piece on "The Ambivalent Miseries of Personal Computing" describing users hunched over machines, cursing manuals yet insisting "It's wonderful! I love it!" — an eerie mirror of today's AI anxiety and obsession debates.
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