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191 - Our Screens, Our Souls

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The Shallows: How the Internet Shapes Us

I was recently reading the beginning of a book by Nicholas Carr called The Shallows. It's just talking about how the internet has affected us as a human culture and as individuals. And he quotes this line from Marshall McLuhan who taught in Toronto, I think, for a while in the 60s and 70s that may be wrong. So don't quote me on that as to the exact place where he taught. Everybody talks about how the medium becomes the message and the technological means shape us. But when we entrust ourselves to our phones, they do shape us. Like so, this idea of kind of curating your experience of life like in Paris in two, how it's

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