I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.
"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."
"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."
https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze
