AI Prompt for Chapter 2: Analogies

Large-language models can sometimes generate interesting analogies. Based on the broad historical perspectives about media technology and language usage in Chapter 2, use AI to consider other aspects of our culture. Following are sample prompts, but you should also create your own analogies based on your personal interests:

• How does the history of media technology resemble the history of health care?
• How does the history of media technology resemble the history of fashion design?
• How does the history of media technology resemble the history of architecture?
• How does the history of movies resemble the history of psychology?
• How is the history of psychology reflected in the history of product packaging?

I recommend that you add some limitations following your question, such as this:

Please include no more than 125 words in your response and use simple language.

FYI – Here’s one sample AI answer to the health care question, courtesy of Claude:

They both struggled with similar big questions: Who gets access? How much should it cost? How do we make sure it’s good quality? Both tried to help more people while dealing with new problems. Like how hospitals had to learn about germs, media had to learn about computer viruses and online safety.