Animated timeline of humanity fearing every new technology across centuries
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A four-minute animated essay from a single prompt: Fable 5.5 wrote the script, animated every frame in code and composed the score, tracing fear of new tools from Socrates on writing to a 2176 future via stamped labels, curves and timelines.
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Asked Claude fable 5.5 for an animated film about the next 150 years of humanity. One prompt. It wrote the script, animated every frame in code, and composed the score. 4 minutes, from math teachers protesting calculators in 1986 to a kid in 2176 who finds fusion boring.
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