Technology in Everyday Life [Part 2] 👨💻 The Choices We Make / Topic Discussion & Vocabulary [947]
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Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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This episode is all about choices we have to make relating to technology in our everyday lives, and the vocabulary of technology today. This episode focuses on issues such as information quality & fact checking, digital sustainability, AI and automation, security, surveillance and privacy, tech company ethics, & tech and well-being. All important topics which you should be able to talk about in English! PDF available. Part 2 of 2.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit |
| 0:07.7 | teacher luke.com.com.com. Hello, welcome back to Luke's English podcast, a podcast for learners of |
| 0:20.3 | English all around the world. |
| 0:22.5 | This episode is all about technology in our everyday lives. And it's the second part of a two-part episode. |
| 0:30.1 | Have you seen part one yet? If you haven't checked out part one, have a look at that. It's the |
| 0:34.8 | episode that I published just before this one. But this is |
| 0:37.9 | part two then. So let's continue. Technology has become a central part of our lives to the point |
| 0:44.1 | that we can hardly live without it. And this includes the connectivity of the internet and the |
| 0:50.6 | convenience of smartphones. Our lives are filled with small choices |
| 0:55.4 | about how we interact with this technology in various ways. |
| 0:59.8 | How can we get the benefits of it without suffering from the negative effects? |
| 1:03.8 | How do we limit our screen time, |
| 1:05.8 | control the amount of private information we give in return |
| 1:08.6 | for the convenience of so many online services. How do we |
| 1:12.3 | protect ourselves from harmful behaviour we might encounter online? How do we maintain truly |
| 1:18.4 | meaningful and beneficial relationships? How do we limit the environmental and social impacts |
| 1:23.8 | of technology? And how can we make sure that technology keeps our children safe and not vice |
| 1:30.4 | versa the other way around? So what I'm doing in this two-part episode is exploring these ideas, |
| 1:36.8 | discussing them, while also helping you with vocabulary on this subject in order to help |
| 1:42.6 | prepare you to be able to talk about these things in English |
| 1:46.4 | too. I want to show you the various terms and expressions we use in English when discussing these |
| 1:52.8 | things to allow you to talk about these things too. So I've prepared various discussion questions |
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