It's focused on backwards.

Ryan is an extreme introvert. I've been self-quarantining before it was cool. I saw that's

with the other day. Well, we've got a lot to talk about today. Today we're going to talk

about tech problems and I'm not talking about bad phone reception or more slow download

speeds. No, today we're going to discuss the disconnection between designers and users,

producers and consumers, tech elites and the rest of us. Our technology might be making

things more convenient for us, but it's also creating new problems, which is why Ramesh

Srinivasan is here today. Ramesh, thank you for joining us.

Thanks for being here. I love the podcast and so the fact that I get to join you all in

person makes me really happy. That's awesome. Thank you guys. Cool. Yeah, no, we're

going to have you. By the way, I should say welcome, simple tens. My name is Joshua

Phil Smilberg. And I'm Ryan Nicodemis and we're the minimalists. All right, man, we've got

to get into it today. We got a lot of stuff to cover. Ramesh, you are a professor at UCLA

Department of Information Studies, but also you wrote a book. And I've got it right

here for our YouTube audience. It's called Beyond the Valley. And we're going to answer

some audience questions today. That's really how we approach the podcast. But before we

do that, I want to talk to you. It seems to me that you wrote this book to try to

re-inject humanity into our technology because right now that seems to be lacking. Yeah, it's

a progressive book. It's an optimistic book because he creates technology, human beings

create technology and technology is in turn shape and impact us on individual levels, psychological

levels, emotional levels. And obviously, as we see more and more systemic levels, whether

it's their economic or their political or their cultural. So the reality that human beings

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