When we introduce new machines, we also disrupt social structures, games, and the rules of those games. With paradigm shifts come lots of progress, yes. But agents of progress are agents of chaos too. They create agitation and anxiety.

I see many shades of this, but I’ll narrow it down to three major types:

• Anxiety of incompetence: my skills are devalued and i have to learn new ones

• Anxiety of irrelevance: people might not relate to, value, or think about me

• Anxiety of uncertainty: I don’t know what the future holds and it feels fickle