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what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

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what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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The idea of a thinking machine/mechanical brain would be more than enough to wow them
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  Yes. Realistic working computers were still a fantasy. So was solid state electronics and continuing miniaturisation.
  
  But they might feel like plausible future space magic like flying cars.

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