"Artificial intelligence, gene modification, and self-driving cars are causing fear and uncertainty about how technology is changing our lives. But humans have struggled to accept innovations throughout history. In this episode, we explore three innovations that transformed the world and show how people have adapted — and ask whether we can do the same today.”

“Why do we keep trying to resist (innovations) even when our resistance has failed in the past?

1500’s coffee made it’s way to Turkey, Greece, Lebanon
1511 is when people began worrying about coffee for it seemed like a threat
1600 is when the Pope decided to excommunicate coffee from the Christian world up until he took a sip
1674 coffee arrived in Sweden and was taxed immediately
Middle of the 1700s, the Swedish Parliament completely banned coffee in order to protect industries
In the mid-1800s, the first version of the tractor came along and made farming more efficient.
In the late 1800s, Alexander Graham Bell first invented the telephone
1876 the telephone just took off
Prior to the 1880s, 1890s, what you used to have was a worker following a horse with a metal steel plow
Then in the late 1800s, John Froelich invented the gas-powered tractor and took farming to a new level
The 1890s when we had the populist movement
late 1800 and early 1900s, there weren't many jobs for women
1917 World War 1 started
1919 the Horse Association of America or HAA was formed.
1921 in Fargo, N.D. The tractor department of the National Implement and Vehicle Association hosted a competition between horses and tractors
1945 the once-powerful HAA was admitting defeat
The 1960s women started coming into the workforce in greater and greater numbers
The 1970s suddenly opens up all kinds of jobs to women