Face to Face Interactions Have Deteriorated

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i'm going to disagree with him after i give his fake response, and then you can see if ho agree with either of us. I've met more interesting people in the last ten years a face to face al certainly on line, certainly over the interviewing people. We have ally extraordinary connections we make with people on line, and then also face to face. And i don't think we've lost those. It's like your continuum of a sort of gossipy, superficial conversations down in the left hand corner, and up in the right hand corner is a profound exchange of ideas that changes the way you look at the world. That's been an amazing gift to be able and privileged to be

Writer and management consultant Venkatesh Rao talks about Waldenponding with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rao coined the term Waldenponding to describe various levels of retreating from technology akin to how Thoreau extolled the virtues of retreating from social contact and leading a quieter life at Walden Pond. Rao argues that the value of Waldenponding is overrated and that extreme Waldenponding is even somewhat immoral. Rao sees online intellectual life as a form of supercomputer, an intellectual ecosystem that produces new knowledge and intellectual discourse. He encourages all of us to contribute to that intellectual ecosystem even when it can mean losing credit for some of our ideas and potentially some of our uniqueness.