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A Sweet Gentleman
@aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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

#AI#fad#bigtech#tech#history#pollution#science

Ad for a radium tonic cure from the New York Times of 1911.
Ad for a radium tonic cure from the New York Times of 1911.
Ad for a radium tonic cure from the New York Times of 1911.
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