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MOOCs

Everyone thought it was going to destroy brick and mortar universities. It didn't. (Other things are creating issues but its not MOOCs)

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Video Games

Main concerns- people become too connected to the screen and it creates anti-social behaviors- violent games create violent people

Some of the fears came true- some of the fears created a host of people that are highly skilled in various activities prior to ever doing it in real life- For example, driving a stick shift car is easier when practicing on a video game.

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Harry Potter books were initally met with (in my area) thoughts of anti-christian beliefs as well as witchcraft. But I loved it and I had freinds and friends parents that thought differently. Some parents wanted it banned.

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main concern: the ordering kiosk at Wendy’s is new! How do I use it? If I have questions, will the associate behind the counter be annoyed with me?

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Lol. The internet. I was in college in the mid 90s when it was just becoming ubiquitous. It was interesting to see how knowledge was being categorized. There was an understandable fear whether info online was reliable, since there wasn't yet a concerted effort to get institutional info online. It was just the weirdos who had taught themselves to code html (a fellow writing tutor made TONS of money building sites for companies)

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Zoom. Completely changed the game for flexible work during COVID.

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Not in my life time, but novels were suspect (reading) in Germany they called it Lesewut or reading madness - adults were worried about the influence of reading and how it was antisocial / influenced people - same thing about tv/vudeo games/internet - not entirely without examples for concern

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Online teaching - think about the early days of Zoom and COVID teaching

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Many concerns seem to have just faded as they’ve become more integrated in society. Things like location tracking and doorbell and home cameras used to be very concerning but they’ve become so useful and integrated that people hardly seem to care about the privacy implications anymore.

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1. it will impact learning or taking the easy way out 2. the technology became the norm. 3. technology usually makes it better except workday. 4. it is another tool to understand and remember the pros and cons and help the students navigate the process

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GPS instead of paper maps!

-the concerns about not knowing how to read maps dissipated with the ease of using GPS

-better and worse! people do not know how to read a map, feel less confident about knowing their way around familiar places, and are more tracked, but also can be more flexible and precise with navigating with ease

-think about what learning outcomes we want the students to get, and use the tool (AI) to meet those learning goals

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The internet

In the early days of the internet librarians tried to collect and organize because of the chaos and difficulties of finding information

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Internet! Having a wealth of unfiltered/unedited/unrevised information

* Both regulated and unregulated applications/avenues to both help and hinder educational/social efforts

* Both considered as a big unknowns and still have their grey/blind spots (to varying extents)

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Online access to reference material increased the standards for what we are expected to know from the literature (example: in the 90s my PhD advisor needed to know less about the field for her dissertation than I needed to know for my dissertation in the 2020s)

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I completed my master's degree in 2002 and my research was done in a library with books. Now you can do a lot of research through online books and articles.

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Example: Limewire and other peer-to-peer sharing networks, which became most often used to "pirate" copyrighted material. That use was generally shutdown in the interest of protecting intellectual property. Interesting to compare that to the flourishing of AI

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Music sharing/ piracy of intellectual property

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The internet - seems like it was met with confusion and skepticism, has fluctuated between pure appreciation and condemnation

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Using the internet to look up material, even academic material, was discouraged as an undergraduate. It was unreliable.

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Online banking

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Books and ebooks. People concerned about future of publishing, etc.

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Significant levels of wind and solar energy leading to important conversations about the future of energy generating

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Smart phones are the closest thing I can think of for this question. The unexamined user (the user controlled by dopamine) is a tool of the tool, but it can be powerful and helpful if used in a purposeful way. Metacog needed.

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Smart phones. People weren’t going to interact socially anymore, everything would be done with a phone, no one would have to think for themselves, etc.

smart phone have allowed us to stay connected with folks, make processes faster and in some cases more efficient

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Calculators

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I remember the prediction that personal computers would eliminate the use of paper (ha)

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Social media - for sure lots of pros/cons but it has changed the ways we connect with each and communicate.

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Social Media - Hard to live without it these days

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Wikepedia

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Facial recognition on Facebook

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As someone who was in high school/college in the late 90s/early 2000s, using the internet as research was highly forbidden! It was seen as a phase and something to NEVER use as a research source - now it's the ONLY source of research for students

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on the path to Y2K, all technology was challenged

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Thinking of the famous article that no one would ever use the internet to buy anything so it would always just be a novelty.

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Google

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Calculators. We all forgot how to use slide rules.

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Facebook, Youtube, Instant messaging

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What lessons? Technology use CAN cause harm when not done with intentionality and alignment to our human values.

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In your lifetime, can you think of other technology that was initally met with skepticism?

●What were the main concerns or fears people had about that technology at the time

●How did those concerns evolve over time?

●How did that technology ultimately change your field or daily life—for better or worse?

●What lessons from that experience might help us approach AI more thoughtfully today?