The Emotional Importance of Technology

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Egan is interested in the emotional reasons why we engage with technology this way. She's not here to scold us, Egan, I don't think at all. And it's a series of stories of people learning this one lesson about what a fiction rather than perfect recollection of reality. The end of this book is this like little story about a character we've spent no time with and he hit a baseball real good.

It only took 500-or-so episodes to revisit the world of Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. We did, of course, have to wait for Egan to write her sequel (sort of) novel. This follow-up to a post-postmodern classic is focused on memories (digital and otherwise) and relationships (virtual and otherwise). It's got "what if the Meta but for everyone's memories" okay??

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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