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> When the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in 1825, people feared the worst: the human body, surely, wasn't made to travel at incredible speeds of 30 miles p
by thih9 3y ago
> When the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in 1825, people feared the worst: the human body, surely, wasn't made to travel at incredible speeds of 30 miles per hour. People genuinely believed that going that quickly would kill you in gruesome ways, such as your body melting.
https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/12-technologies-that-scared-the-world-senseless-1249053 https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/12-technologies...
And both can be true, trains have killed people and tiktok can have adverse effects.
So far we’ve kept trains, added safety measures and made them faster. I guess we’ll do the same with tiktok and the like.