The Uncanny Valley of Human Communication

Book Riot - The Podcast

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Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk audiobooks and copyright, podcasts and reading, a head-scratching Emily Dickinson trailer, and more. Jeff also talks to Leah Price about her new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books. This episode is sponsored by: The Ventriloquist by E.R. Ramzipoor Win the Best Mystery/Thrillers of the Year So Far! Book Riot's Recommended Podcast Links discussed in this episode: Copyright expiration/public domain as a chance to rectify turning down a classic Apple’s show about Emily Dickinson looks very confusing Major publishers sue Audible over text-to-speech feature Science! Brain maps look alike for podcasts and reading Hero of the Week: 101-year-old woman releases her first collection of poetry See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	This is episode 328.
0:42.0	We're recording on Thursday, August 20. This is episode 328.
0:43.0	We're recording on Thursday, August 29th, 2019.
0:46.0	I'm Jeff.
0:47.0	This is Rebecca.
0:48.0	I'm pointing to this sort of pastoral figure to my left here.
0:52.0	And we're coming to you from the very good book related
0:54.5	website book right.com. Someday we'll have holograms or no nothing or
1:00.9	I don't want that we don't like video we don't even like video calling do you think we'd be
1:04.6	down with holograms it seems unlike us I yeah I don't know but when we're actually in the
1:09.2	same room it's fun like the da Vinci code one is fun there's something about video calling that's like almost the uncanny valley of human
1:16.7	communication that is... Yeah, I guess so. I'm not I think I'm out on holograms just in general I'm yeah I don't think I don't like it I'm not into I mean as
1:26.8	long as my hologram can be like wearing grown-up clothes while the actual me is in
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