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Ralph welcomes professor Karen Levy, who talks to us about how regulations aimed at making trucking safer have been turned into a tool of corporate surveillance as chronicled in her book \\u201cData Driven:\\xa0Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance.\\u201d And on the opposite side of the tech spectrum, high school senior, Logan Lane joins to tell us how she and her friends have liberated themselves from their iPhones and social media by forming a group they call \\u201cThe Luddite Club.\\u201d

Karen Levy is an associate professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, associate member of the faculty at Cornell Law School, and field faculty in Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, and Data Science. Her new book is Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance.

I think we\\u2019re actually all aligned in our interests. Truckers don\\u2019t want to die on the road any more than the rest of us do. So, if safety is really the motivation for the electronic logging device, it feels as though we might all be able to get behind legislation and regulation that helps address the root causes of this fatigue.

Karen Levy, author of Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance

Logan Lane is a high school senior in Brooklyn and the founder of the Luddite Club.

It felt like when I became a Luddite, I started off on this reading journey. We\\u2019re all on our individual reading journeys. I saw mine starting with Ana\\xefs Nin\\u2019s Collages, and it was amazing, and it was something I didn\\u2019t think I could have interacted with so much and been so passionate about if I had been on the phone. And from then onwards I started doing this reading challenge. Every year I would set a goal\\u2014 so my first year I read 50 books, the second year 95 books\\u2026 It felt like the friends I\\u2019d lost on social media; I\\u2019d picked up those friends in the authors I was reading.

Logan Lane