14 of History's Worst Tech Freakouts

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Exploding phones, radio telepathy, and planes falling from the sky. These are just a few of the most notorious scares the tech world has ever known.

If change can be a little scary for most people, technological innovation can be downright terrifying. For every new advancement in human engineering, it seems, there is an equal and opposite outburst of hysterical, blind fear. While some scares have found footing in legitimate evidence and events, many are just plain wacky products of ignorance and misinformation. Don your tinfoil hat and join us for a ride through our shared history of public panic.......

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[Joan Archer]

Fascinating read, thanks Shawn, just goes to show how technology is still keeping us guessing at times.

 

[Brink]

I can only image what freakouts the future will bring.