Technology and the Mind w/ Nicholas Carr

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired on March 20, 2017

Note: Given that we are relying more than ever on technology to communicate and work during this epidemic, we thought it was a good time to share our interview w/ Nicholas Carr.

The internet has revolutionized the human experience in the 21st century. Our ability to communicate with others, find locations in unfamiliar places, and access information from across the globe has never been easier, and new media like blogs and podcasts have connected voices with audiences in ways that were not possible just a few decades ago. Yet, despite all these incredible benefits, many of us are beginning to sense that all this connectivity is affecting the way we think and interact with one another. How is the internet affecting our brains, and should we be concerned about it? How is the internet different from other media technologies such as print, radio and television? And is google making us stupid? In this episode of the Road to Now, we get the answer from New York Times Best Selling Author Nicholas Carr.

A special thank you to Middle Tennessee State University and Dr. Susan Myers-Shirk for arranging this interview as part of MTSU's Scholars' Week Talk.

For more on this or other episodes of The Road to Now, please visit our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com.

This episode of the Road to Now is a re-air of episode #149 The History of Technology w/ Nicholas Carr. You can get the other episodes in our history of energy series by supporting us on Patreon.

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1:16.1	I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is The Road to Now.
1:25.3	Today's episode is a re-air of a conversation we had back in 2017 with New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Carr.
1:29.9	The topic of Nicholas's work is the internet and technology and the way it affects our brains and the way it affects the way we interact. And I thought that
1:35.0	this might be a good time to re-air this episode. You know, a lot of us are in our houses now,
1:42.1	a lot of us, most of us are in our houses now and a lot of our work
1:47.6	has gone from being in person to online. A lot of our communications with others, with loved
1:53.3	ones, a lot of our relationships have gone online. And in so many ways, this has been a gift.
2:00.5	I can't imagine now not being able to see my family members,
2:03.5	see my friends, get to do the things that we do, heck even have this podcast. And that is all
2:09.9	possible because of this amazing technology. But as we are in the middle of this period of life with an epidemic all around us and we are
2:21.7	becoming deeper and deeper enmeshed in this internet world, I thought it's good to make sure that
2:29.9	we reflect on the cons of this. Now, that's not to say we shouldn't be doing this. Of course we're
2:36.2	going to do it. I guess to say it best, don't let yourself become convinced that this is something
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