Tech Under Trump

Note to Self

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🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We've seen the good, bad and ugly of tech this election cycle. And we all have big feelings about it. So Manoush hosted a good old-fashioned call-in, for listeners to share their thoughts and fears about our digital lives under a Trump administration. With Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times, and Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

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0:00.0	The United States of Anxiety.
0:12.1	We are all living in it.
0:14.0	Wherever you are on the political spectrum, there is a lot of anxiety about our collective
0:19.2	future.
0:20.2	It's note to self, the tech show about being human.
0:24.0	I'm a new summer Odie.
0:26.4	And that anxious feeling is something that our colleagues here in the newsroom at WNYC
0:31.2	have been exploring for months.
0:34.2	They've made a podcast called The United States of Anxiety, documenting how and why Americans
0:40.2	feel so differently about where our nation is right now.
0:45.3	The show just completed a series of live colon episodes, and I was invited to host one of
0:50.4	them.
0:52.8	I of course chose to focus on technology and how it's affecting us in our post-election
0:57.9	world.
0:58.9	You're not surprised.
0:59.9	And I wanted to talk specifically about two things.
1:04.3	What's happening to our online social lives?
1:07.1	And how we go forward balancing our digital civil liberties with keeping this nation safe.
1:14.0	And as you will hear, the collars had such great insight and really pointed questions for
1:19.8	my two guests.
1:21.4	Farhad Manjoo, the New York Times tech columnist who joined me from Mountain View in California.
1:26.6	He by the way, has been writing about his own temptation to quit Twitter.
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