Was life better offline? Writers and actors accuse AI of stealing their work. TikTok has been linked with latter-day witch trials. Some say the internet has broken our society.
The internet: ‘Harsh, cynical, illiterate’
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Native Americans - The indigenous people of the Americas, who lived in the region before settlers from other places.
Utopian - Impossibly perfect. The term comes from an ancient Greek phrase meaning "no-place" invented by Henry VIII's chancellor, Sir Thomas More, in 1516, as the name of an imaginary, ideal island.
Wild West - Used to describe the western USA during the 19th Century when settlers were moving into new areas. It was considered to be a lawless place.
Salem - Between 1692 and 1693, more than 200 people in the puritanical British colony of Massachusetts were accused of witchcraft, and 19 people were sentenced to death.
Massachusetts - A state in the northeast USA.
Idaho - A state in the northwest of the USA with a population of nearly 2 million.
Arizona - A state in the southwest USA with a population of more than 7 million.
IBM - An American multinational technology company. It's longer name is The International Business Machines Corporation.