How Email Took Over the World w. Anne Helen Petersen
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
How did the information superhighway get so gridlocked? Guest Anne Helen Petersen tells Sarah the story of how email took over the world and our working lives, and what it would mean for us to get a little of our lost time back. Plus, a Kurt Loder cameo.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Under a free Bradbury overhead Gmail |
| 0:16.0 | Imagina world where every word ever written could be viewed instantly in your home for an information |
| 0:22.0 | Super highway internet is that massive computer network the one that's becoming really big now |
| 0:28.7 | Call now for your free America online startup kid and get free software and 10 free online hours |
| 0:38.4 | Welcome |
| 0:40.0 | You've got mail |
| 0:43.2 | Hello, I'm Sarah Marshall. Welcome to your wrong about today. We are talking about |
| 0:50.5 | Email with Anne Helen Peterson. I realized we've talked about some scary topics on this show |
| 0:56.6 | But this one leaves them all behind to quote the princess bride |
| 1:00.8 | The question I really wanted to answer in this episode is how did a technology go from something |
| 1:07.6 | exciting and |
| 1:09.6 | fun and |
| 1:11.4 | seemingly something that would allow us to connect and communicate more with people |
| 1:16.3 | turn in a mere |
| 1:18.8 | 2025 years into |
| 1:21.6 | The rest on the machinery of all of civilization |
| 1:25.4 | Sorry if that sounds dramatic |
| 1:28.0 | That means we're also talking about the technologies that email shaped and that shaped email in turn |
| 1:34.0 | And ultimately the technological world that we live in today and what it means to try and |
| 1:40.4 | Live and work and communicate in 2022 |
| 1:45.8 | Anne Helen Peterson my guest today is a writer public intellectual. She writes currently the |
| 1:52.4 | Newsletter culture study which is one of the few things that I am happy to receive in my inbox |
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