Has Any Other New Technology Ever Been THIS Unpopular?

Get started with Brilliant’s tutor for free. You can upgrade to Premium to unlock all courses. How Business Worked viewers can save 20% off an annual subscription at http://brilliant.org/howbusinessworked ----- Sign up for my FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ ------ #technology #business #history Link To Our Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HowMoneyWorks Written By: Sam Video Created By: Svibe Multimedia Studio Editor: Cardan Media Gatherer: Andrea Rivas Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images Music Provided By: Epidemic Sound 📩 Business Inquiries ➡️ [email protected] ------- Sources (in order) https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/the-running-list-major-tech-layoffs-in-2026-where-employers-cited-ai/ https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000-layoffs-need-less-heads-ai-rcna228703 https://www.fortune.com/2026/02/10/ai-washing-and-forever-layoffs-why-companies-keep-cutting-jobs-even-amid-rising-profits https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000-layoffs-need-less-heads-ai-rcna228703 https://www.fortune.com/2026/02/10/ai-washing-and-forever-layoffs-why-companies-keep-cutting-jobs-even-amid-rising-profits https://hbr.org/2026/01/companies-are-laying-off-workers-because-of-ais-potential-not-its-performance https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-backlash-college-commencements-2026/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Stocking_Frames,_etc._Act_1812 https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1812/feb/27/frame-work-bill https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/the-proclamation-of-ned-ludd/ https://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Users/Allen/engelspause.pdf https://www.etymonline.com/word/middle%20class https://www.history.com/articles/american-heiress-marry-british-aristocrat https://www.edwardianpromenade.com/money-2/edwardian-economics/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-american-rich-kids-bought-their-way-into-the-british-elite-4252/ https://www.history.com/articles/american-heiress-marry-british-aristocrat https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x https://www.britannica.com/event/South-Sea-Bubble https://newtonandthemint.history.ox.ac.uk/global-financial-world/newton-and-the-south-sea-bubble https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/mania13c.pdf https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-tech-set-to-spend-650-billion-in-2026-as-ai-investments-soar-163907630.html https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-1-15-gartner-says-worldwide-ai-spending-will-total-2-point-5-trillion-dollars-in-2026 https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/04/29/second-new-nuclear-reactor-completed-in-georgia-the-carbon-free-power-comes-at-high https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-gdp-over-the-long-run https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/04/29/second-new-nuclear-reactor-completed-in-georgia-the-carbon-free-power-comes-at-high https://www.energy.gov/cmei/systems/solar-photovoltaic-system-cost-benchmarks https://wfpusa.org/news/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/ https://www.ghacks.net/2026/08/01/metas-reality-labs-loses-4-6-billion-in-q2-2026-pushing-total-losses-toward-88-billion/ https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/59d2cad0-608d-4585-83f6-53d4d96a70e0/content https://www.holloway.com/g/making-things-think/sections/the-ai-boom-19801987 https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--was-actually-700-humans-in-india.html https://world-nuclear.org/nuclear-essentials/where-does-our-electricity-come-from https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1170244609/germany-begins-powering-down-nuclear-plants https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lead/ https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/asbestos-elimination-of-asbestos-related-diseases https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-altman-senate-chatgpt-ai-could-go-quite-wrong/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findings-about-how-americans-view-artificial-intelligence/ ------ For most of recent history, new technology has always been something that people are (mostly) optimistic about. A game console came out with amazing new graphics, your phone and your ipod and your computer were now all the same thing, we were putting men on the moon, tvs in bathroom mirrors, and science was assuring us that we were just a few short years away from an Iron Man suit. the last few years of technology though have clearly been defined by AI, and almost with every passing month people are measurably hating it more and more. And for the life of me, I just can’t understand why…