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Benjamin Mikhael: I'm too depressed about technology to do anything with it. He went to South by Southwest this year, but at the last minute booked a flight for two days so he could attend his friend's party. A strange man named Michael was like him; Technology had pushed him over the edge says Mikhael. "I think he should come to my hack day," writes Mikhael of an unofficial event in Austin.

Technology consultant Sarah Slocum loves social media and her Google Glass, she wears them everywhere. But when she walked into Molotov’s, a bar on Haight Street in San Francisco, she discovered that not everyone shares her love for wearable gadgets. Also, your host makes his annual pilgrimage to SXSWi and ends up designing wearables at a surreal Hack Day. We also hear from Shingy, AOL’s Digital Prophet. He says wearables will allow us to have it both ways: we can be both digital and human. **This episode features elements that were recorded binaurally. If you listen with a pair of headphones or a LiveAudio enabled JAMBOX, you will experience three dimensional sound – it will be like you are there.**

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