To me this is the perfect expression of the unsettled quality that more and more technology can inspire. Entertainments like Metropolis and City Lights showed different faces of that fear, and this one shows a far more pedestrian malady: insomnia. This ad from around 1935 is for Neurinase Alepsal. Photo 10 of 10 in Speed Limits at the Wolfsonian by Aaron Britt

Speed Limits at the Wolfsonian

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To me this is the perfect expression of the unsettled quality that more and more technology can inspire. Entertainments like Metropolis and City Lights showed different faces of that fear, and this one shows a far more pedestrian malady: insomnia. This ad from around 1935 is for Neurinase Alepsal.