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Jul 3, 2023 59 min

Episode 18: Does Technology Endanger Something Important About Being Human?

from Terrifying Questions Hosted by Eric Kaplan and Taylor Carman

This week Eric and Taylor are joined by Michael Thaddeus, professor of mathematics at Columbia University, as they ponder the worrisome thought that technological progress might threaten something essential and/or precious about human existence. Are we sacrificing quality for efficiency? Are distraction and shallowness replacing focus and depth of thought and feeling? And why do phones sound so much worse now than they did in the 1970s?

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