Doomerism is Driving the Left Toward Socialism
There's a pretty good opinion piece in the NY Times today about America's long history of technological doomerism. If you think all of the pessimism about AI and data centers is something new and unique to our time, consider this.
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Doomerism is Driving the Left Toward Socialism John Sexton 8:00 PM | June 22, 2026 Gallup There's a pretty good opinion piece in the NY Times today about America's long history of technological doomerism. If you think all of the pessimism about AI and data centers is something new and unique to our time, consider this. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); In the 19th century, groups of textile workers (the Luddites) destroyed the new machines they believed were replacing them. In the 1920s, the play “R.U.R.” — the letters stand for “Rossum’s Universal Robots” — depicted a war of the robots against humans...As the economist Christina D.
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