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483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

Freakonomics Radio

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The Greatest Short Cut Ever Invented Is the Internet

The fear of new technologies is not a novel concept. In fact, it's a feature of just about every new technology ever invented. Marcus de sautoy thinks laziness is our saving grace against the machine. He says we don't have the ability to plough right through problems like a computer would. We're forced to find clever ways to handle them and that could save us.

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