Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallery and welcome to episode five, this season five, five and five.

And in today's episode, we're going to talk about something that I think is the biggest obstacle to slow living and something that a lot of people talk about as the thing that gets in the way the most.

That's ever present, but it's always, always there, always annoying, always getting in the way.

And it's almost anti-slow living.

Okay.

Let me ask that question when we get into the episode proper.

But of course, we're talking about technology.

We are.

What do you think about technology?

We wouldn't be here without technology.

Yeah, I have a hard time rubbishing technology given the...

How ironic, you wouldn't be listening to this podcast if it wasn't for technology.

Yeah.

So, you know, the life expectancy and the medical breakthroughs and vaccines and like everything,

everything that we are able to do more of or better is in some way reliant upon technological advances.

Yeah, exactly.

And so tech is a very broad term.

It can include all of those things, all innovation, all progress.

And then you've also got connection technology, smartphones, computers,

emails, social media, that sort of stuff.

And I feel like when people are asking the question, they're not actually talking about all

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