Ep. 86: The Soft Tyranny of Smartphones [The Outstanding Podcast]

Today, it seems that even the most mundane tasks require some sort of technology. Host Joseph Backholm is joined by Brad Littlejohn, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, for a discussion on the growing use of smartphones in today’s society. From turning in homework to gaining access to your gym, our cellular devices have quickly become a “social passport” to a lot of our day-to-day activities. Brad weighs in on the issue of a marketplace that requires the use of your smartphone and compares this current situation to the lessons we learned when automobiles first entered the scene.