I think it's very important that all of us as individuals, and maybe as communities in certain settings like the Amish can decide to limit or restrict or avoid certain types of technologies. I mean, if people want to use their smartphones 24 seven and many people do, go ahead. If you want to have a text technological Sabbath, that's, that's up to you. Or you're for 24 hours, you don't use any screens. There are some things that clearly this is a beneficial progress for society but not sure we really want it. It makes food very cheap because exactly what the economist says it will do - make people standard of living higher undoubtedly. But when you apply them
James Rebanks's family has raised sheep in the same small English village for at least four centuries. There are records of people with his same last name going back a few hundred more. Even his sheep are rooted in place: their DNA is from Viking times. It's enough to make anyone feel insignificant--and according to Rebanks, that's a wonderful thing. Listen as the author of The Shepherd's Life speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the deep pleasures and humbling privilege of being a sheep farmer.