Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

Well, I guess this is Book Recommendation Weekend 2019 2019 because I've got another book recommendation for you.

Is technology really rotting our brains,

destroying our society, or is that what everyone has always worried about with every

technological advance going back to TV or telephones or even writing letters.

The new book, Board, Lonely, Angry, Stupid, Changing Feelings about Technology from the

Telegraph to Twitter tries to look at this question from a historical perspective.

Is it really different this time?

But more importantly, to what degree has technological change

impacted how we think of things?

And vice versa.

My thanks to the authors Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt.

I'm gonna start, forgive me,

with maybe the most cliche question imaginable which is you know what

was the inspiration to write this book but the reason that I asked that is

because this is kind of something that I wrestle with all the time, which is that, you know, it's like, I think everybody knows like with every advance of technology people clutch their

pearls and worry about what it's doing to us is it warping our brains is it

destroying the social fabric that sort of thing. But then like what if this time it is

different is kind of what I wrestle with like in the way that a stopped clock you

know is right twice a day what if a the sky is falling scenario

actually comes to pass do you need to acknowledge that I'm wondering to what

degree were you guys poking it at something similar? Yeah, you know that reminds me of an interesting story.

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