“Like” Is Too Simple an Emotion
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🗓️ 14 February 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus lamentthe anticlimactic end to Waymo and Uber’s court drama, explain why teens are pissed at Snapchat, and examine John Perry Barlow’s contributions to the internet we know today. The hosts are joined by Justin Rosenstein, co-founder of Asana and the former Facebooker behind the like button, to talk about the distraction crisis and whether Silicon Valley can solve a problem it created.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Will Arimus. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:25.9 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, |
| 0:28.1 | a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:32.1 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 13th. |
| 0:35.4 | On today's show, we'll talk about the popular revolt over |
| 0:37.8 | Snapchat's new redesign, the fizzled out end to Uber and Waymo's courtroom drama over the future |
| 0:42.9 | of self-driving cars, and a reflection on the legacy of the late John Perry Barlow, lyricist for |
| 0:48.7 | the Grateful Dead and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who wrote the massively |
| 0:52.8 | influential techno-libertarian manifesto, the Declaration of the Independence ofier Foundation, who wrote the massively influential techno-libertarian |
| 0:54.3 | manifesto, the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. |
| 0:58.5 | Later, we'll be joined by Justin Rosenstein. He's the co-founder of Asana, and he's the former |
| 1:03.2 | Facebook engineer who's often credited with inventing the like button. Years later, he actually |
| 1:08.0 | reportedly deleted the Facebook app from his phone. |
| 1:14.1 | He's now a founding member of the Center for Humane Technology. |
| 1:20.5 | That's the new group of tech insiders who are advocating for a healthier relationship between people and their gadgets. |
| 1:23.4 | And like we do every week, don't close my tabs. |
| 1:25.4 | Our picks for Best on the Web this week. |
| 1:27.3 | All right, April, how are you doing this week? |
| 1:28.9 | I'm good. |
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