A note to our listeners, this episode contains mention of suicide. I used to host a tech news show,

technology news, marketplace tech on public radio stations around the country. We covered the latest

features on smartphones, sure, but also the rise of social media, privacy online, tracking people

and monetizing their preferences.

And what I came to believe is that the rate of advancement for technology was much,

much faster than our ability to control it or even imagine what it all means.

Imagine the ramifications of the technology.

We can build, we can innovate,

we can respond to consumer desires and profit and hit key performance indicators, but it takes

longer, a lot longer, to figure out how to manage the tech's proper place in society, to make it safe, to regulate it with laws

and best practices and litigation. And there are a lot of reasons it does take longer.

One, it's not nearly as fun to regulate something as it is to build it. And a lot of great

creative brains would rather be on the building side.

Two, you may not know what the issues are with the technology until it's being used by the public,

at which point you can't prevent the damage, only hope to contain it.

And three, managing technology, stopping technology, slowing it down is always pretty difficult and sometimes impossible.

But if you don't do it or can't do it, if you can't bring the tech under control, well, pardon me, but holy shit, it can get scary.

Bit of a holy shit episode today.

It's Depression Mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

The Wall Street Journal reported that a man in Connecticut killed his mother and then himself.

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