tbh cables were like that and safety precautions weren’t hard set in yet
Oh wow this is horrifying
Holy shit
Why don’t we see this kind of stuff more in history books?! I’d be way more interested in history if I understood that people were afraid of electricity because they were afraid of power lines slicing them to peices like cheese-wire! History books make it sound like “oh those silly people thought electricity carried demons or something!” Rather than “those poor people opposed electricity because they were terrified that eventually there would be so many power lines they wouldn’t be able to see the sun anymore.”
Tbh new technology does get scarier as a concept once u start to notice how behind & ineffective the government is at regulating it. Like I wasn’t scared of talking robots in theory but having Alexa and Siri inside people’s homes has ended up being terrifying bc data privacy doesn’t exist yet.
