Here's a contemporaneous article about the guy who invented cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, who said thinking machines were putting us on the eve of destruction.
The Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan Province, one of the most well-known archaeological sites of 2021, was contemporaneous with the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC).
Hawk's contemporaneous account of the Perry expedition serves as a good contrast, to say nothing of earlier explorer accounts of Captain Cook or Mungo Park.
While potatoes were indeed portrayed negatively for a time—they were even accused of causing syphilis and lust, among other ailments—contemporaneous evidence of such an organization has yet to be found.
We must be cautious in attempting to correlate as strictly contemporaneous two formations, which do not include many identical species, by the general succession of the forms of life.
But the chair of the inquiry has said he was unable to accept that evidence and said that it was flatly contradicted by that of his officials and by the contemporaneous documents.
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