The Exponentic Growth Curve of Information

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There's this exponential growth curve of information. But there's also just the exponential growth curves of technology. And I'm glad that while this intensification process is making it easy for people to find themselves plunged into chapel perilous, maybe it'll help pull them out. It's something to be happy about even as we're being deeply disturbed by all that other stuff that we were talking about.

In this episode, we chat with Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America.

IN AMERICA. He is an editor at Reason magazine, and he lives in Baltimore.

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Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer Ryan Reeves

“In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out agnostic.” -RAW