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#105 - Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?

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The Failure of the Promise of Smart Technology

The Arab Spring was Embraced by the digital utopians because it was supposedly throwing off Autocracy but what we've seen after the collapse of the Arab Spring is more anarchy. The internet proved itself not only to be a superb tool for organizing for organizing people without a leader Which is pretty remarkable thing. This was leaderless organization. It also I know this from talking with people from Tunisia They credit at least in part the internet with giving them the idea of freedom they can have a voice. Why can't they do it in public for their government and I will use the word that is empowering so I think you know there's some disagreement on the panel about whether cultures are being raised up

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