Do You Think That Technical Literacy Solves the Dangerous Effects of Technology on the Mind?

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i'm still hopelessly addicted to twitter and getting new stories that confirm my biaces. It's because the technology, it leverages evolution. And i don't feel any more immune to that, even if i understand what's happening. I think you're right that we're probably not much more capable of stopping these things from happening. But i do think that the awareness of them and the understanding of what is happening does give you a little more power,. or at least a little more awareness of what's happening to you and to others around you.

"The only constant is change", they say.

In this episode, Cal and Steph discuss just how drastically the world has changed and will continue to change.

From the iPhone... to the Internet... to antibiotics... to human flight... to to the sequencing of DNA... to perhaps the most important fact that humans now live more than double as long... these developments all happened within the last 100 years.

Given that things within a single lifetime can go from being inconceivable to ubiquitous, it's mind-blowing to imagine what might be come.

They use the remainder of the episode to explore what might be to come, whether it be proactive medicine, computer-brain interfaces, printed food, digital warfare, and much more.

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