Volume 86 (2019), Edition 3

Fear of technology has a bad reputation. It is often seen as irrational, unfounded and hostile to innovation. The ascription of fear has at times been used to defame critics of technology. Günther Anders, for example, complained in the 1950s that...

Automobility, as it has been understood by historians, has been the historical locus of joy and excitement for millions of drivers and their passengers. Si- multaneously, the growth of the automotive sector has resulted in the deaths and injuries of...

This article explores the multifaceted ways in which fear has informed US computer narratives during the Cold War, by analyzing the relationship be­ tween “fear of falling behind” and the medicalization of “computer attitudes”, “computer...

While there has been ample research in the fields of psychology and human- robot interaction on humans’ fear toward robots, advancements in artificial emotional intelligence and emotional robotics suggest the need to investigate not only the...