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#105 - Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?

Open to Debate

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The Motion Smart Technology Is Making Us Dumb

Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist Intel fellow and vice president at Intel Corporation. Smart technology makes us smart and it makes us safer if you were to look in the last year I can pull you examples from all over the world In many African countries and in on the Indian some continent mobile phones and text messages are used by governments To send out health warnings and preventative health messages when the Ebola outbreak was taking place Messages were sent on smartphones to tell people how to handle Themselves their communities and the bodies that they were encountering hardly dumb right in the United States You have the amber alert something I'm sure many of you hope to never see on your telephones But when you do you know what

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