Society Once Tried to Ban Teddy Bears
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and today |
| 0:17.0 | we're going to talk about fear of technology, where it comes from and why whatever particular technology you're afraid of |
| 0:24.7 | be at the Roomba replacing the common house butler or the robot vacuum cleaner |
| 0:29.4 | with a knife duct tape to it replacing the common house bodyguard. Our fear of that technology is almost |
| 0:35.3 | certainly misplaced and will appear hopelessly old-timey and ridiculous to our contemptible |
| 0:40.6 | future grandchildren. A whole bunch of you orphans have |
| 0:44.0 | recommended today's guest Jason Fyfer and I am happy to oblige and happy to |
| 0:48.0 | report that guy does not disappoint in fact I am so excited to talk to my guest today that we're going to do a massively |
| 0:55.2 | abbreviated Patreon plug so that we can jump straight into the interview. Here goes. |
| 1:00.3 | If you like me, please support the show and give me money, go to Patreon.com |
| 1:03.4 | slash Andrew Heaton. Okay, thanks. |
| 1:06.0 | My guest today is Jason Fyfer. He is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine, the host of the wildly popular |
| 1:15.0 | and excellent podcast, Build for Tomorrow, formerly known as the Pessimist Archives. |
| 1:19.2 | He's an author and basically, from what I can tell, a optimist is that can I describe you as that |
| 1:25.2 | Jason you can you can the business of optimism is good I'm happy to be a |
| 1:29.3 | professional optimist good I'm glad to hear that and I'm delighted to have you I've had I've had several |
| 1:34.1 | listeners asked me to bring you on the program and I've had several colleagues |
| 1:36.9 | at various publications I work with that love your show your show and so I was I was |
| 1:41.4 | delighted to be able to kind of do a deep plunge into |
| 1:44.0 | build for tomorrow. Oh thanks I that really means a lot I'm so I'm so happy to hear that. |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah well okay so the thing that I really want to talk to you about today is |
| 1:52.0 | um build for tomorrow, formerly the Pessimist Archives, is sort of chronicling the historical umbrage that everyone has with every new technology. And I wanted to talk to you about why people are afraid of |
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