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Matt Ballantine on The Human Side of Technology

The Human Risk Podcast

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The Evolution of the Human Brain

I disagree somewhat about the human brain not being very, the human brain is incredibly efficient. And what actually has happened in the last 20 or 30 years is interestingly, this is starting to be described as some sort of flaw. I think one of the reasons why that's happening is because there is a long tradition in certainly the sort of for the industrial revolution onwards of the prevailing technologies of the day being used as metaphors to describe how humans work. But it's a massively simplified and quite dim way of looking at it.

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