When the bicycle began to rise in popularity in the 1890s, many folks were wary of the harm this relatively new piece of transportation technology might wreak on society. Some tried to link the ...

The fear of technology has been around for as long as technology itself, and like technology itself, this fear is always changing. There is evidence of “technophobia” — the technical name for this ...

In a 1990 Harris Poll study of American opinion, 79% of respondents said they were concerned about threats to personal privacy. The big issue back then? Caller ID. When we recently posed that same ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the 1960s and 1970s, German companies and laboratories churned out futuristic technologies, from novel types of ...

SUMRALL, Miss. (WDAM) - The L.R. Boyer Memorial Library in Sumrall is taking on a new mission: teaching technology. Finding the right button, clearing your search history, or troubleshooting an issue ...

My first blog in this area defined technophobia as “the fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices, especially computers.” The blog provided statistics revealing how much more prevalent ...

Transformers: Age of Extinction arrives in theaters on Friday. Picking up four years after the events of the last film, Michael Bay's quasi-reboot of the franchise sees mankind turn on the ...

'Child's Play,' this latest interpretation of Chucky, taps into contemporary technophobia more than the original 1988 film. By Richard Newby Chucky’s back and he wants to play. This morning the ...