How to Know What's Real: How to be Immortal Online

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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With digital spaces regularly evolving and updating, and the infinite scroll beckoning to us at all times, this episode questions if we have, as a culture, fully embraced the end of endings. Hanna Reichel, an associate professor of reformed theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, helps illuminate how the emergence of godlike AI and the rise of creator culture compare with the reformations and transformations through which people lived (and died) in the past. Write to us at [email protected]. Music by Forever Sunset (“Spring Dance”), baegel (“Cyber Wham”), Etienne Roussel (“Twilight”), Dip Diet (“Sidelined”), Ben Elson (“Darkwave”), and Rob Smierciak (“Whistle Jazz”). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.9	So the Ouija board was a very controversial toy in my house growing up.
0:57.3	I think my mother was just very much against having one because of its associations with magic and the occult.
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1:28.2	I'm Andrea Valdez. I'm an editor at The Atlantic.
1:31.4	And I'm Megan Garber, a writer at The Atlantic.
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1:40.5	Andrea, when I played with Ouija boards, which was exclusively at slumber parties and exclusively to ask this mysterious portal to another world about people we had crushes on, I remember feeling really entranced by it, but also a little creeped out by it. And I think I still might feel that way just a little bit,
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