Hello there and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith, and the Thinking Fellows is brought to you by the 1517 podcast network of shows. You can go to 1517.org slash podcasts to see all of our shows there. Today I am joined by Bruce Hillman, Adam Francisco, and Scott Keith to discuss an episode on technology.

This is coming on the heels of an episode on science.

And we're asking the question today, is technology good?

I figured this would be related to some of the science talk because people commonly

wrap up technology into science as either a product of science or sometimes just refer to it

as science itself. In fact, there's like a Bill Burr skit I saw just a couple days ago about Steve Jobs and the iPhone.

And, you know, the joke is, is that Jobs would walk into a room and yell at a bunch of, quote, scientists to build him whatever technology.

That was a really funny skit.

He wanted.

So, I, now, I eat it's a really pretentious fruit like a pair.

Yeah.

I would probably call those people engineers, but, for the most part.

But we have a whole set of cats.

Oh, it's a great idea.

I want all this music in here.

Right.

Make it happen.

Adam doesn't think it's funny because Adam doesn't understand technology. So the question is, that was the iPod, Adam. It was a device that you could listen to your music on.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So the question is, is technology good? Now, when we say the word technology, I think one of the

problems is today is that we almost exclusively mean computer technology, advancements in

software and hardware of personal computing devices or the computers that are inside of other

things like cars, airplanes,

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