New de Young Show Proves We've Been Angsty Over Technology Forever

San Francisco Magazine Kelsey Lannin Courtesy of FAMSF Cult of the Machine focuses on the timelessness of tech dread. Think techno-angst over the impending robo-AI apocalypse is unique to 21st-century San Francisco? The latest exhibition at the de Young, Cult of the Machine, underscores just how similar our responses to seismic tech breakthroughs are to those of the machine age bookended by the First and Second World Wars—which gave rise to the precisionist style in American art. Here, some re...