It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Wednesday, May 20th.

As many workers, students, and even some healthcare professionals have begun working remotely these last few months,

technology has been making the once inconceivable possible.

But a controversy is brewing about after the pandemic emergency subsides.

Here's Governor Andrew Cuomo at a press conference on May 6th, waxing, gee whiz, about a high-tech future.

On a larger scale, how do we really use new technology in the economy of tomorrow?

And that's the lesson that we're all learning, right?

Work from home, telemedicine, teleeducation.

It's all about technology and a better use of technology and really incorporating

the lessons into that. So pandemic, the pandemic, has presented itself as an opportunity for big tech

to integrate more completely into Americans' lives. Could the temporary work-from-home measures

become permanent? How about the schooling from-home measures? And is this good or bad for humanity?

Well, joining me now is Naomi Klein, senior correspondent for The Intercept, author of many very

influential books, including The Shock Doctrine and On Fire, the Burning Case for a Green New Deal.

She's the Gloria Steinem-endowed chair in Media Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers

and co-founder of the Leap, a climate justice organization.

Hi, Naomi, welcome back to WNYC.

Hi, Brian. Great to be with you. And I think maybe the sound that

you hear out the window is, is New York parents screaming at the prospect that they have to

continue homeschooling indefinitely into the future as part of a grand experiment.

Right.

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