When Innovation Meets Fear: Lessons from Past Tech Revolutions

Explorers of Exponential Change

Every major tech revolution has sparked excitement — and fear.
From the looms that terrified the Luddites to today’s anxiety around artificial intelligence, history is filled with moments when progress clashed with resistance and doubt.
In this episode, we look at how technologies like the automobile, the Manutara airplane in Rapa Nui, and digital platforms like Spotify and Uber reshaped the world — and how those changes forced us to rethink our rules, habits, and values.

Because when innovation meets fear, there are lessons worth learning.

This episode is part of an experimental approach where artificial intelligence is not the protagonist, but the channel. We use AI agents as expressive tools to shape content that is carefully selected, intentionally structured, and guided by human judgment. We avoid algorithmic improvisation, aiming instead for conscious human design — a new format to explore ideas with agility, depth, and a distinct voice. Artificial intelligence is merely the medium and the set of tools; the focus, the curation, and the meaning remain, unequivocally, human.