058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Is all this new technology improving our thinking…

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0:41.0	Yeah, we're cooling up a happy, they were tired. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 58. Oh, Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. My name is David McRaney. I will be your
1:20.2	host and usually we open the episodes with sort of a cold open or we go right
1:24.9	into the topic but this time I'm going to talk to you for a second and give you some
1:27.8	updates because this is sort of a rerun episode it's not sort of it is I'm re-broadcasting an interview
1:36.5	from episode 13 with Clive Thompson all about technology and how it is not
1:41.0	making us dumber it is not making us dumber, it is not making us have shorter attention
1:46.0	spans or be less connected to one another. It's doing exactly the opposite of
1:50.3	all those things. We're more connected. We are getting
1:53.0	smarter. We are getting better at being human beings thanks to technology. All your
1:58.7	scary stuff is just
2:05.0	shaking your fist on the lawn and saying,
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